| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Description | Internal staff file of Basil Bernstein, the Karl Mannheim Professor in the Sociology of Education at the IOE from 1979 until his death in 2000.
This file mainly contains correspondence between Bernstein and IOE Directors, Bernstein’s CVs and application forms, and internal correspondence regarding expenses, salaries, and appointments. It also contains the following typescript articles and drafts by Bernstein:
- ‘Thoughts on the trivium and the Quadrivium: Religion and the Organisation of Knowledge, and the Construction of the Knower’;
- ‘Education and Democracy: Some Comments’;
- ‘Codes, Symbolic Control and Pedagogic Discourse’;
- ‘Social Class Differences in Conceptions of the Uses of Toys’;
- ‘On the Classification and Framing of Educational Knowledge’;
- ‘Sociological Aspects of the Classifying and Framing of Educational Knowledge’;
- ‘Social Class, Language & Socialisation’. |