This book represents part of an ongoing effort to understand the rules, practices, agencies and agents which shape and change the social construction of pedagog

Provides a sociological analysis of the codes of speech transmitted and acquired through social relations.

Basil Bernstein: The Thinker and the Field provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Basil Bernstein, demonstrating his distinctive contribution to s

Illustrating the effect of class relationships upon the institutionalizing of elaborate codes in the school, the papers in this volume each develop from the pre