This book represents part of an ongoing effort to understand the rules, practices, agencies and agents which shape and change the social construction of pedagogic discourse. It draws together and re-examines the findings of the author's earlier work.

Part I On codes 1 Code, modalities, and the process of cultural reproduction: a model 2 Social class and pedagogic practice 3 Elaborated and restricted codes: overview and Criticisms Part II On pedagogic discourse 4 Education, symbolic control, and social practices 5 The social construction of pedagogic discourse