Towards a Sociology of Pedagogy : The Contribution of Basil Bernstein to Research

by Bernstein, Basil B.; Neves, Isabel; Davies, Brian; Daniels, Harry; Morais, Ana

• ISBN13: 9780820455853
• ISBN10: 0820455857
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

<This volume is replete with cameos of various aspects of his corpus that the individual researchers represented have regarded as particularly important both for themselves and their analyses. They celebrate a joint dedication to 'developing a more systematic and general language of description'. ... . This book also contains a paper by Bernstein and a video conference.>>

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(14)
Brian Davies
PART 1 Literacy and Schooling	15	(66)
Literacy Pedagogy Prior to Schooling: Relations Between Social Positioning and Semantic Variation	17	(30)
Geoff Williams
Introduction	17	(3)
The Children and Their Families	20	(2)
The ``Same'' Context	22	(3)
Reading Difference in Family Readings of The Three Little Pigs	25	(9)
Joint Book-Reading as Situation- Type	34	(6)
Finale: Evidence From Reading at Home in the Early School Years	40	(7)
The Ontogenesis of Decontextualised Language: Some Achievements of Classification and Framing	47	(34)
Ruqaiya Hasan
Conjectures About Decontextualised Language	47	(3)
Where, When, and How Do They Learn It?	50	(22)
Decontextualised Language and the Classroom	72	(9)
PART 2 Pedagogic Discourse and Curriculum Organization	81	(102)
Subject, Power, and Pedagogic Discourse	83	(16)
Mario Diaz
Introduction	83	(1)
Bernstein's Program	83	(1)
Power, Boundaries, and the Subject	84	(2)
Power, Subjects, and Voice	86	(2)
The Subject and Meanings	88	(1)
Subjects and Code	89	(3)
Subjects and Pedagogic Discourse	92	(2)
Final Comments: The De-Centred Subject in Bernstein	94	(5)
Bernstein and Activity Theory	99	(14)
Harry Daniels
The Teaching of Sociology: Towards a European Comparison of Curricula	113	(16)
Philippe Vitale
Introduction	113	(1)
Teaching Content and What Is at Stake	114	(1)
The Structure of Sociology Instruction	115	(9)
In Search of Koine(s)	124	(5)
Intimations of Boundlessness	129	(24)
Johan Muller
``Dereglement''	129	(3)
Sacred and Profane	132	(6)
Vertical and Horizontal	138	(3)
Prometheus Unbound, or What Does It Mean to Be Literate?	141	(12)
Founding the Sociology of Knowledge: Basil Bernstein, Intellectual Fields, and the Epistemic Device	153	(30)
Rob Moore
Karl Maton
Introduction	153	(3)
Conceptualising Intellectual Fields	156	(6)
Illustrating the Switch Event: From ``Perspectives'' to ``Paradigms''	162	(4)
Grammars, Modes, and Communities: The Cases of Literary Criticism and Mathematics	166	(10)
Conclusion: Devices and the Sociology of Knowledge	176	(7)
PART 3 Classroom Contexts and Pedagogic Practices	183	(134)
Pedagogic Social Contexts: Studies for a Sociology of Learning	185	(38)
Ana Morais
Isabel Neves
Introduction	185	(3)
Pedagogic Social Contexts	188	(3)
Research Methodology: Developing an External Language of Description	191	(21)
Final Considerations	212	(11)
Texts and Contexts in Educational Systems: Studies of Recontextualising Spaces	223	(28)
Isabel Neves
Ana Morais
Introduction	223	(2)
Theoretical Framework	225	(2)
Application of the Pedagogic Discourse Model in the Analysis of Science Curriculum Reforms: Exemplar Research Studies	227	(14)
Final Considerations	241	(10)
Pedagogic Discourses and Student Resistance in Australian Secondary Schools	251	(36)
Parlo Singh
Introduction	251	(1)
Theoretical Framework: Analysis of the Structure of Pedagogic Discourse	252	(4)
Interview data: Samoan Members of Para-Educational Networks and Students	256	(7)
Classroom Data: Analyses of Pedagogic Discourses in English Classroom Lessons	263	(13)
Discussion	276	(11)
Educational Evaluation: The Social Production of Texts and Practices	287	(30)
Joseph Solomon
Anna Tsatsarom
Introduction	287	(1)
The IEP Project and Its Contexts	288	(6)
Theoretical Considerations	294	(2)
Research Questions and Methodology	296	(2)
The Analysis of Transmitter's Texts	298	(10)
Critical Reflections	308	(9)
PART 4 Bernstein's Sociology of Education: Looking Backward and Forward	317	(44)
Classification Strength and Power Relations	319	(20)
Magnus Haavelsrud
Language Codes, Class, and Power Relations	319	(6)
Curriculum, Class, and Power Relations	325	(1)
The Pedagogic Device and Power Relations	326	(4)
Power Relations and Relative Autonomy	330	(9)
Crosswired: Hypertext, Critical Theory, and Pedagogic Discourse	339	(22)
William Tyler
Developing an Online Educational Resource: A tertiary Education example	342	(2)
Open Textualities, Closed Technologies: Two Faces of Online Learning	344	(3)
Pedagogic Discourse and Post-modernity	347	(4)
Dimensions of the Virtual: Hypertext as Pedagogic Device	351	(5)
Conclusion	356	(5)
EPILOGUE Coda: Basil Bernstein Speaks	361	(24)
From Pedagogies to Knowledges	363	(6)
Basil Bernstein
Video Conference with Basil Bernstein	369	(16)
List of Contributors	385	(6)
Index	391