Provide readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L.S. Vygotsky and Basil Bernstein.

Harry Daniels is Professor of Education: Culture and Pedagogy, Head of the Learning as Cultural and Social Practice Research Programme, and Director of the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research at the University of Bath, UK

1. Curriculum and pedagogy in the sociology of education; some lessons from comparing Durkheim and Vygotsky 2. Dialectics, Politics and Contemporary Cultural-historical Research, Exemplified through Marx and Vygotsky 3. Vygotsky and Bernstein 4. Sixth Sense, Second Nature and Other Cultural Ways of Making Sense of our Surroundings: Vygotsky, Bernstein and the Languaged Body 5. The Concept of Semiotic Mediation: Perspectives from Bernstein's Sociology 6. Negotiating Pedagogic Dilemmas in Non-Traditional Educational Contexts: An Australian Case Study of Teachers' Work 7. Modalities of authority and the socialisation of the school in contemporary approaches to educational change 8. Semiotic Mediation, Viewed Over Time 9. Boys, skills and class: educational failure or community survival? Insights from Vygotsky and Bernstein 10. 'Identity' as a unit of analysis in researching and teaching mathematics 11. Schooling the social classes: Triadic zones of proximal development, communicative capital, and relational distance in the perpetuation of advantage 12. The Pedagogies of Second Language Acquisition: combining cultural historical and sociological traditions