This new edition of Bernstein's classic book is updated with three new chapters: on discourse, on official knowledge and identities, and a wide ranging interview with Joseph Solomon. The new edition, published as Volume Five in his Class, Codes, and Control Series, builds on the continuing tradition of Bernstein's highly influential work on class, education, language, and society.

Basil Bernstein was the Karl Mannheim Professor of the Sociology of Education, University of London until 1990 when he became Emeritus Professor of the Sociology of Education.

Part 1 Towards a Revised Theory of Pedagogy Chapter 2 Pedagogic Codes and their Modalities of Practice Chapter 3 The Pedagogic Device Chapter 4 Pedagogizing Knowledge: Studies in Recontextualizing Chapter 5 Official Knowledge and Pedagogic Identities: The Politics of Recontextualizing Chapter 6 The Divorce of Knowledge from the Knower Part 7 Theory and Research Chapter 8 Codes and Research Chapter 9 Research and Language of Description Part 10 Critique and Response Chapter 11 Sociolinguistics: A Personal View Chapter 12 Vertical and Horizontal Discourses: An Essay Chapter 13 Codes and their Positioning: A Case Study in Misrecognition Chapter 14 Bernstein Interviewed