Contents

Editorial

A remarkable sociological imagination

Tony Edwards

Ways of meaning, ways of learning: Code as an explanatory concept

Ruqaiya Hasan

Literacy and pedagogy in flux: Constructing the object of study from a Bernsteinian perspective

Gemma Moss

Basil Bernstein at the micro level of the classroom

Ana M. Morais

Pedagogising knowledge: Bernstein's theory of the pedagogic device

Parlo Singh

The complex gendering of invisible pedagogies: Social reproduction or empowerment?

Madeleine Arnot

Bernstein and the middle class

Sally Power & Geoff Whitty

Does education have independent power? Bernstein and the question of relative autonomy

Michael W. Apple

The sacred and the profane in recent struggles to promote official pedagogic identities

John Beck

The growth of knowledge and the discursive gap

Rob Moore & Johan Muller