The Marxist Paradigm
Definition
Marxism sees humans as communal, creative producers, who are conscious, autonomous, and have free will (Mullaly, 2007). Marxists value all individuals on the simple basis of being human, not on how ‘superior’ they appear to be (Mullaly, 2007). They consider production to be the nature of all societies, and the mode of the production alters the society it is in (Mullaly, 2007). They have the same view of the nation-state as the social democratic view, which is that it should be used to reinforce and actively pursue equality, social justice, and democracy (Mullaly, 2007). One of the main differences between the Marxist and the social democratic paradigms is how society becomes this way. All of Marxism considers …show more content…
The first of which is that almost no Marxist thinker has written specifically about sex education, and very few of them have written about education in general. Depending on the type of Marxism, the type of sex education would be treated differently. Evolutionary Marxism would be autonomy promoting, because this method of teaching is gradual and positive, it supports students in understanding themselves and treating others respectfully, which would hopefully begin to change society in general (Corngold, 2013). Revolutionary Marxism is looking to over throw the entire system, but after the revolution their sex education would probably also be autonomy promoting, as it is the most in line with socialist …show more content…
Part of the problem in Canada is that, while there is no broad abstinence-only policy such as in the United States, across the country sex education is being approached differently and is most definitely out of date, especially in religious school boards. As explored in this paper, some of the harms of a lack of comprehensive sex education can be particularly detrimental not only to individuals, but to society, which makes this issue of particular importance to social workers. One of the most important long term goals needs to be changing the face of sex education across the country, and ensuring that all schools and school boards (including religious-based boards like those of the Catholic school board or the Jewish school board) have the same end goal of this education, which is autonomy promoting. Social workers can work on this issue by participating in policy making on a federal, provincial, or educational level, with a goal of creating a sex education curriculum that is most in line with the social democratic method of autonomy promotion. A liberal sex education will never properly change society, and so Canada needs to move towards this social democratic model. On an individual level, social workers in all paradigms can work with individuals through counselling and information sharing to ensure that all individuals have access to this education and the tools to make their
Definition
Marxism sees humans as communal, creative producers, who are conscious, autonomous, and have free will (Mullaly, 2007). Marxists value all individuals on the simple basis of being human, not on how ‘superior’ they appear to be (Mullaly, 2007). They consider production to be the nature of all societies, and the mode of the production alters the society it is in (Mullaly, 2007). They have the same view of the nation-state as the social democratic view, which is that it should be used to reinforce and actively pursue equality, social justice, and democracy (Mullaly, 2007). One of the main differences between the Marxist and the social democratic paradigms is how society becomes this way. All of Marxism considers …show more content…
The first of which is that almost no Marxist thinker has written specifically about sex education, and very few of them have written about education in general. Depending on the type of Marxism, the type of sex education would be treated differently. Evolutionary Marxism would be autonomy promoting, because this method of teaching is gradual and positive, it supports students in understanding themselves and treating others respectfully, which would hopefully begin to change society in general (Corngold, 2013). Revolutionary Marxism is looking to over throw the entire system, but after the revolution their sex education would probably also be autonomy promoting, as it is the most in line with socialist …show more content…
Part of the problem in Canada is that, while there is no broad abstinence-only policy such as in the United States, across the country sex education is being approached differently and is most definitely out of date, especially in religious school boards. As explored in this paper, some of the harms of a lack of comprehensive sex education can be particularly detrimental not only to individuals, but to society, which makes this issue of particular importance to social workers. One of the most important long term goals needs to be changing the face of sex education across the country, and ensuring that all schools and school boards (including religious-based boards like those of the Catholic school board or the Jewish school board) have the same end goal of this education, which is autonomy promoting. Social workers can work on this issue by participating in policy making on a federal, provincial, or educational level, with a goal of creating a sex education curriculum that is most in line with the social democratic method of autonomy promotion. A liberal sex education will never properly change society, and so Canada needs to move towards this social democratic model. On an individual level, social workers in all paradigms can work with individuals through counselling and information sharing to ensure that all individuals have access to this education and the tools to make their