Basil Bernstein is one of the most important figures in British sociology. This text contains a collection of work by authors, all influenced to some extent by Bernstein's ideas, who are concerned with contemporary issues and analyses.

Bernstein and Poetics, Dell Hymes; Cultural Semantics - Occupations and Gender Discourse, Lynne Chisholm; Official Knowledge and the Growth of the Activist State, Michael W. Apple; Culture, Crisis and Morality - the Struggle Over the National Curriculum, Stephen J. Ball; Changing Pedagogic Discourse, Tony Edwards; Basil Bernstein and Aspects of the Sociology of the Curriculum, Ivor Goodson; Decoding Classroom Work, Brian Davies; Visible and Invisible Pedagogies in Literacy Education, Courtney B. Cazden; Decoding Childhood, Chris Jenks; Classification and Framing in English Public Boarding Schools, Geoffrey Walford; Theorising Social Relations Within Urban Schooling, Gerald Grace; Delicate Boundaries - Bernstein, Sacks and the Machinery of Interaction, David Silverman; Bernstein and Ricoeur - Contours for the Social Understanding of Narratives and Selves, Hilary Dickinson and Michael Erben; Post-Metaphysical Discourse and Pedagogy, Robert Young.