1st Edition
Basil Bernstein, Code Theory, and Education Women's Contributions
Introduction
Parlo Singh
1. Ways of Meaning, Ways of Learning: code as an explanatory concept
Ruqaiya Hasan
2. Pedagogic practices in the family socializing context and children’s school achievement
Isabel P. Neves and Ana M. Morais
3. Literacy and Pedagogy in Flux: constructing the object of study from a Bernsteinian perspective
Gemma Moss
4. Explorations in policy enactment: feminist thought experiments with Basil Bernstein’s code theory
Parlo Singh, Barbara Pini and Kathryn Glasswell
5. Britton and Bernstein on Vygotsky: divergent views on mind and language in the pedagogic context
Moira Inghilleri
6. Pedagogic discourse and sex education: myths, science and subversion
Gabrielle Ivinson
7. From psychic defences to social defences. Recontextualizing strategies and Klein’s theory of ego development
Claudia Lapping
Biography
Parlo Singh is a Professor in the field of Sociology of Education, based in the Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Her work explores how educational policies are enacted through the three message systems of curriculum, pedagogy and evaluation in primary schools serving high poverty communities. She worked with Basil Bernstein from 1989 to 2000, and has been part of the international Basil Bernstein symposium from 2000 to 2014.
