ABSTRACT
Basil Bernstein is one of the leading British sociologists of education. Bernstein has indirectly acknowledged the resemblance to Durkheim's distinction between moral and intellectual education. Karabel and Halsey pose Bernstein as the 'harbinger of a new synthesis' of Durkheim and Marx in the sociology of education. Bernstein's writings on the sociology of the school cover its three aspects, the classroom, organization and curriculum, and the unity he gives to these makes it difficult to separate out just the treatment of organization. In secondary schools the hypothesized change in curriculum and organization from collection to integrated codes, and therefore from 'visible' to 'invisible' pedagogy, is explained in societal shifts from mechanical to organic solidarity. 'A particular form of pre-school/infant school pedagogy' is the example of an 'invisible' pedagogy dealt with in detail, although there are excursions into public schools and private lavatories.
