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

This volume, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a clear account of the developments of this code theory and shows the close re