Pedagogy and the Shaping of Consciousness Linguistic and Social Processes

by Christie, Frances

• ISBN13: 9780826478702
• ISBN10: 0826478700
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-17
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Basil Bernstein began to develop his theory of social structure and power relations during the 1950s and 1960s. Early in the 1960s he met M. A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, who were developing the first formulations of what would become known as systemic functional (SF) linguistic theory. A far-reaching dialogue began. Bernstein recognized the significant role that language plays in the construction of social experience and social inequality. Halliday and Hasan were actively seeking a theory of language that would explain the nature of the social. In different ways, they acknowledged the powerful role of language in the social construction of experience. Their resulting enquiries brought both theories and scholars into dialogue.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vi
Introduction
Frances Christie	1	(9)
1 Society, language and the mind: the meta-dialogism of Basil Bernstein's theory	10	(21)
Ruqaiya Hasan
2 Contexts for learning	31	(35)
Carmel Cloran
3 Preparing for school: developing a semantic style for educational knowledge	66	(22)
Clare Painter
4 The pedagogic device and the production of pedagogic discourse: a case example in early literacy education	88	(35)
Geoff Williams
5 Mentoring semogenesis: 'genre-based' literacy pedagogy	123	(33)
J.R. Martin
6 The pedagogic device and the teaching of English	156	(29)
Frances Christie
7 Language, knowledge and authority in school mathematics	185	(32)
Robert Veel
8 Culture, competence and schooling: approaches to literacy teaching in indigenous school education	217	(29)
David Rose
9 Official knowledge and pedagogic identities	246	(16)
Basil Bernstein
10 Pedagogic identities and educational reform in the 1990's: the cultural dynamics of national curricula	262	(28)
William Tyler
Index	290