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Education and the reconstitution of social class in England

This paper extends Gamble 2009 in seeing a reconstitution of the reserve army of labour as a key function of capitalist crisis but education and training are deeply implicated in a wider class reformation, not only relegating an unskilled section of the previously manually working class to worthless vocational certification but also cramming for academic qualifications to ‘restart social mobility’. Efforts to ‘educate our way out of economic crisis’ are questioned since there is no ‘new correspondence’ between education and economy. Education must therefore regain its purpose of critically learning from the past to meet the crisis of the present.