ABSTRACT

The basis of Bernstein’s sociology of education lays in is his theorisation of the different approaches to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and the implications for pedagogic rights and social justice. This edited collection presents 15 empirical case studies and theoretical accounts from 22 international scholars who focus on the experiences of students and teachers in contexts marked by economic, social, cultural, linguistic and/or geographic diversity.  Located in systems of education in Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, South Africa and the United States, each chapter contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of a democratic education across time and place.

part |10 pages

Introduction

chapter |8 pages

Looking back to look forwards

Expanding the sociology of education

part |61 pages

Pedagogic rights

chapter |14 pages

Empirical reference points for Bernstein's model of pedagogic rights

Recontextualising the reconciliation agenda to Australian schooling

chapter |12 pages

Changing from within

Basil Bernstein, teacher education and social justice

chapter |14 pages

The sociology of democratic potentials in social structures

The case of apprenticeship in French Freemasonry

part |87 pages

Democratising knowledge

chapter |16 pages

Investigating principles of curriculum knowledge progression

A case study of design in a civil engineering degree programme

chapter |15 pages

Devaluing knowledge

School mathematics in a context of segregation

chapter |15 pages

Changing official knowledge in economy-based societies

Higher education policy, projected identities and the epistemic shift

part |59 pages

Democratising pedagogies

chapter |11 pages

Constructing meaning from multisemiotic printed school texts

The heuristic nature of Bernstein's concepts to analyse students' difficulties

chapter |18 pages

Vertical discourses and science education

Analysing conceptual demands of educational texts

chapter |14 pages

Caught in the net?

Innovation and performativity in an Australian university program