Over a career spanning forty years, Basil Bernstein produced theoretical models about the workings of educational systems, and how these systems produce social

Fully updated and revised, the second edition of New Learning explores the contemporary debates and challenges in education and considers how schools can prepar

Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code Theory or ‘L

This volume, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a clear account of the developments of this code theory and shows the close re

We live in ‘knowledge societies’ and work in ‘knowledge economies’, but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While know