TY - JOUR
AU - Atkinson, Paul
AB - Extended review: Decoding Bernstein Paul Atkinson The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse: Class, Codes and Control (volume four) Basil Bernstein, Routledge, London and New York, 1990, £30.00, X 4-235pp. There are many prepared to acknowledge that Basil Bernstein is among the most creative of contemporary social theorists while equally prepared to acknowledge that they are unsure as to the precise nature of his contribution. Even within the sociology of education, where his influence has been most consistently exerted, Bernstein is known to many in a fragmentary and confused manner. The appearance of this collection of essays will, one hopes, prompt renewed appreciation and appraisal of Bernstein's contribution and encourage a systematic understanding of his sociological project. It is the fourth volume of the 'Class, Codes and Control' series that began in 1971. Apart from a revised edition in the interim, the last volume appeared in 1975. The first three volumes contained papers that articulated the two best known areas of theory and research: the controversial work on language codes, and the no less original reflections on the classification and framing of educational knowledge. Since then Bernstein has been rather less visible in print. But that does not mean that his 
TI - Extended Review: Decoding Bernstein: The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse: Class, Codes and Control
JF - The Sociological Review
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1991.tb00871.x
DA - 1991-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/extended-review-decoding-bernstein-the-structuring-of-pedagogic-dZydQM9Kh9
SP - 647
EP - 654
VL - 39
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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