Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: the possibilities of Basil Bernstein

Johan Muller

SECTION 1

Bernstein's relations

2. Silent, invisible, total: pedagogic discourse and the age of information

William Tyler

From class reproduction to the totally pedagogized society

A poststructuralist turn? Semiotics, discourse and education

Self, society and meaning: pedagogy as social semiosis

Dimensions of discourse: a socio-semiotic framework

Conclusion

3. The concept of semiotic mediation: perspectives from Bernstein's sociology

Ruqaiya Hasan

Introduction

Semiotic mediation in the development of mind

Semiotic mediation: an analysis of the concept

Basil Bernstein and the theory of semiotic mediation

Conclusion

4. The debt to pleasure: the subject and knowledge in pedagogic discourse

Zain Davis

Introduction

Pedagogic communication as moral discourse

The structure of the pedagogic relation

Conclusion

SECTION 2

Learning in school contexts

5. Framing talk: towards a `radical visible pedagogy'

Jill Bourne

Learning as the experience of boundaries

Horizontal and vertical discourse

Towards a visible radical pedagogy

The managed introduction of horizontal discourse

Conclusion

6. The what and the how of teaching and learning: going deeper into sociological analysis and intervention

Ana Morais, Isabel Neves And Delmina Pires

Introduction

Theoretical framework

Methodology

Data analysis

Conclusion

7. Sequencing and pacing of the hidden curriculum: how indigenous learners are left out of the chain

David Rose

Stratifying educational outcomes

Stages in the literacy development sequence

Pedagogic discourse and learning to read

Reading before school

Reading practices in early school years

Reading practices in the middle years

Alternative practices: Learning to Read: Reading to Learn

Democratizing the classroom

8. Decoding mathematics instruction: a critical examination of an invisible pedagogy

Sarah Theule Lubienski

Social class differences in child socialization

Theoretical framework

The study

Results

Discussion

9. Gendered learning identity in two modalities of pedagogic discourse

Harry Daniels And Angela Creese With Valerie Hey And Diana Leonard

A model of cultural transmission based on Bernstein

Methodology and research design

Discussion

10. The framing of pedagogic encounters: regulating the social order in classroom learning

Madeleine Arnot And Diane Reay

Research design

Fighting for attention: strong frames in Mandela

`Keeping up': strong frames in Green field School

Valuing educational knowledge

Conclusion

SECTION 3

Aspects of teacher education

11. Towards a sociology of teacher education

Paula Ensor

Introduction

Actual and virtual discourses - teacher education pedagogic discourse and the production of `best classroom practice'

A modality of teacher education discourse

Classification, framing and the apprenticing of novices

`Relations to' - positioning of students in relation to a privileged repertoire

Conclusion

12. Teacher training contexts: study of specific sociological characteristics

Isabel Neves, Ana Morais and Margarida Afonso

Introduction

Theoretical framework

Planning teacher training

Characterization of the teacher training context

Final considerations

SECTION 4

Knowledge and differentiation in vocational and higher education

13. Retrieving the general from the particular: the structure of craft knowledge

Jeanne Gamble

Introduction

Bernstein on craft

Craft as knowledge structure (1)

Craft as non-science

The modelling principle in craft

Craft as knowledge structure (2)

Conclusion

14. Horizontal discourse in law and labour law

Mignonne Breier

The case studies

Horizontal and vertical discourse in a postgraduate diploma in labour law

Rule versus experience in a certificate course in labour law

The everyday in law and labour law

Conclusion

15. The wrong kind of knower: education, expansion and the epistemic device

Karl Maton

Introduction

Conceptual framework: codes and devices

The `new student' debate

The new student

The new universities

Controlling the epistemic device

Conclusion

Index