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Basil Bernstein

Code Theory and Beyond

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Authors:
  1. Brian Barrett

    1. CORTLAND, USA

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  • Describes one of the most influential approaches in the sociology of education
  • Informs about its contribution to a substantial body of research, particularly into education
  • Encompasses a complex and powerful account of how social inequality and symbolic control are reproduced and changed

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education (BRIEFSKEY)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introducing Basil Bernstein

    • Brian Barrett
    Pages 1-11

  3. Establishing Code Theory: Towards a Sociology of Language

    • Brian Barrett
    Pages 13-23

  4. Turning to Educational Knowledge: Classification and Framing

    • Brian Barrett
    Pages 25-39

  5. Constructing Pedagogic Discourse: The Pedagogic Device

    • Brian Barrett
    Pages 41-55

  6. Recovering Knowledge: Discourses and Knowledge Structures

    • Brian Barrett
    Pages 57-68

  7. Continuing Bernstein: Social Realist Sociology of Education

    • Brian Barrett
    Pages 69-82

  8. Building on Bernstein: Legitimation Code Theory

    • Brian Barrett
    Pages 83-100

  9. Bernstein and Code Theory: A Guide to Further Reading

    • Brian Barrett
    Pages 101-116

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 117-120
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About this book

This book provides an accessible way into the ideas of Basil Bernstein. It introduces, explains and exemplifies key conceptual landmarks in the development of his theory, from his sociolinguistics in the 1960s through analyses of classrooms and the construction of curriculum in the 1970s and 1980s, to studies of intellectual fields of research through the 1990s. The book introduces how these ideas can and have been used in empirical research over the past fifty years, and how they are being built on by scholars in the twenty-first century to create a cumulative approach to understanding education, knowledge and society that is alive and growing today. ​

Authors and Affiliations

  • CORTLAND, USA

    Brian Barrett

About the author

Brian Barrett is a Professor in the Foundations and Social Advocacy Department at the State University of New York at Cortland. He also serves as Graduate Research Coordinator with Cortland’s Urban Recruitment of Educators program. He is co-editor of Knowledge and the future of the curriculum: International studies in social realism (2014) and Knowledge, curriculum and equity: Social realist perspectives (2017). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Basil Bernstein

  • Book Subtitle: Code Theory and Beyond

  • Authors: Brian Barrett

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50745-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50743-4Published: 17 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50745-8Published: 16 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 120

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Sociolinguistics

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