On the Concept of Relative Autonomy in Educational Theory

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Abstract
In an effort to contribute to the further development of educational relative autonomy theory, this article raises a few basic issues with regard to the relationships between the internal structuring of schooling and educational functions of social reproduction and change. The concepts of positive, negative and critical correspondence are introduced in order to analyse different forms of structuring in schooling in relation to the commodity form of economic production. The historical significance of different forms of correspondence is touched upon, and the potentials of critical correspondence between schooling within the State and the commodity form are discussed in terms of a contradiction between the functions of efficient accumulation and legitimation.

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