1st Edition

Basil Bernstein The thinker and the field

By Rob Moore Copyright 2013
224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Basil Bernstein: The Thinker and the Field provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Basil Bernstein, demonstrating his distinctive contribution to social theory by locating it within the historical context of the development of the sociology of education and Sociology in Britain. Although Bernstein had a particular interest in education, he did not see himself as a sociologist of... Read more

Introduction  Section 1: The Field  Background and Beginnings.  Durkheim, Cosmology and Education  Section 2: The Problematic  The Structure of Pedagogic Discourse: elaborating and restricted codes.  Bernstein and Theory: reproduction and interruption.  Bernstein and Research: classification and framing.  The Pedagogic Device: power and control.  Conclusion

Biography

Rob Moore is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.