ABSTRACT
In the course of his academic career Basil Bernstein was engaged in a wide range of empirical work, often in collaboration with colleagues and research students. Through this work he developed a distinctive approach to social and educational research, which in turn influenced his teaching and research student supervision as well as his critical engagement with empirical work by colleagues, collaborators and others. In his later writing, Bernstein began to explore more explicitly the relationship between his theoretical work and his approach to research, an interest that is evident in the subtitle of his last book: theory, research, critique.
