Contents

Series Editor’s Introduction

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Brian Davies

PART 1

Literacy and Schooling

Chapter 1

Literacy Pedagogy Prior to Schooling: Relations Between Social Positioning and Semantic Variation

Geoff Williams

Introduction

The Children and Their Families

The “Same” Context

Reading Difference in Family Readings of The Three Little Pigs

Joint Book-Reading as Situation-Type

Finale: Evidence From Reading at Home in the Early School Years

Chapter 2

The Ontogenesis of Decontextualised Language: Some Achievements of Classification and Framing

Ruqaiya Hasan

Conjectures About Decontextualised Language

Where, When, and How Do They Learn It?

Decontextualised Language and the Classroom

PART 2

Pedagogic Discourse and Curriculum Organization

Chapter 3

Subject, Power, and Pedagogic Discourse

Mario Diaz

Introduction

Bernstein’s Program

Power, Boundaries, and the Subject

Power, Subjects, and Voice

The Subject and Meanings

Subjects and Code

Subjects and Pedagogic Discourse

Final Comments: The De-Centred Subject in Bernstein

Chapter 4

Bernstein and Activity Theory

Harry Daniels

Chapter 5

The Teaching of Sociology: Towards a European Comparison of Curricula

Philippe Vitale

Introduction

Teaching Content and What Is at Stake

The Structure of Sociology Instruction

In Search of Koïnè(s)

Chapter 6

Intimations of Boundlessness

Johan Muller

“Dérèglement”

Sacred and Profane

Vertical and Horizontal

Prometheus Unbound, or What Does It Mean to Be Literate?

Chapter 7

Founding the Sociology of Knowledge: Basil Bernstein, Intellectual Fields, and the Epistemic Device

Rob Moore & Karl Maton

Introduction

Conceptualising Intellectual Fields

Illustrating the Switch Event: From “Perspectives” to “Paradigms”

Grammars, Modes, and Communities: The Cases of Literary Criticism and Mathematics

Conclusion: Devices and the Sociology of Knowledge

PART 3

Classroom Contexts and Pedagogic Practices

Chapter 8

Pedagogic Social Contexts: Studies for a Sociology of Learning

Ana Morais & Isabel Neves

Introduction

Pedagogic Social Contexts

Research Methodology: Developing an External Language of Description

Final Considerations

Chapter 9

Texts and Contexts in Educational Systems: Studies of Recontextualising Spaces

Isabel Neves & Ana Morais

Introduction

Theoretical Framework

Application of the Pedagogic Discourse Model in the Analysis of Science Curriculum Reforms: Exemplar Research Studies

Final Considerations

Chapter 10

Pedagogic Discourses and Student Resistance in Australian Secondary Schools

Parlo Singh

Introduction

Theoretical Framework: Analysis of the Structure of Pedagogic Discourse

Interview data: Samoan Members of Para-Educational Networks and Students

Classroom Data: Analyses of Pedagogic Discourses in English Classroom Lessons

Discussion

Chapter 11

Educational Evaluation: The Social Production of Texts and Practices

Joseph Solomon & Anna Tsatsaroni

Introduction

The IEP Project and Its Contexts

Theoretical Considerations

Research Questions and Methodology

The Analysis of Transmitters’ Texts

Critical Reflections

PART 4

Bernstein’s Sociology of Education: Looking Backward and Forward

Chapter 12

Classification Strength and Power Relations

Magnus Haavelsrud

Language Codes, Class, and Power Relations

Curriculum, Class, and Power Relations

The Pedagogic Device and Power Relations

Power Relations and Relative Autonomy

Chapter 13

Crosswired: Hypertext, Critical Theory, and Pedagogic Discourse

William Tyler

Developing an Online Educational Resource: A tertiary Education example

Open Textualities, Closed Technologies: Two Faces of Online Learning

Pedagogic Discourse and Post-modernity

Dimensions of the Virtual: Hypertext as Pedagogic Device

Conclusion

EPILOGUE

Coda: Basil Bernstein Speaks

From Pedagogies to Knowledges

Basil Bernstein

Video Conference with Basil Bernstein

List of Contributors

Index