Contains papers that show the origin and development of the author's theoretical studies into the relationships between social class, patterns of language use and the primary socialization of the child. This work provides a hypothesis that requires teachers to look afresh at their pupils' language a[...]

This book represents part of an ongoing effort to understand the rules, practices, agencies and agents which shape and change the social construction of pedagogic discourse. It draws together and re-examines the findings of the author's earlier work.[...]

This book, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a lucid account of the most recent developments of this code theory and, importantly, shows the close relation between this development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise. Pedagogy, Symbolic Co[...]