Primary Socialization, Language and Education
About the Book Series
This 7-volume set, first published between 1970 and 1977, forms part of the original 13-volume Primary Socialization, Language and Education series. The series consists of reports on research work carried out by the Sociological Research Unit of the University of London Institute of Education. The research was concerned with the inter-relationship between culture, social organization and orientations towards certain uses of language. It studied in particular social class differences in the way mothers prepared children for the experience of the infant school, maternal communication and control over young children, and the speech of children aged five to seven years. The research programme also included the development and evaluation of an exploratory language programme for working-class infant schoolchildren. The remaining 6 titles are available separately.
A Question of Answers: Volume I
1st Edition
By W. P. Robinson, Susan J. Rackstraw
May 10, 2025
In the early 1970s, the problem of arousing and maintaining the curiosity of children had been a recurrent theme in reports concerned with the development of new school curricula. However, before these ideas could be translated into soundly based practical measures, an increased understanding of ...
A Question of Answers: Volume II
1st Edition
By W. P. Robinson, Susan J. Rackstraw
May 10, 2025
In the early 1970s, the problem of arousing and maintaining the curiosity of children had been a recurrent theme in reports concerned with the development of new school curricula. However, before these ideas could be translated into soundly based practical measures, an increased understanding of ...
Code in Context
1st Edition
By Diana S. Adlam
May 10, 2025
In the 1970s, Basil Bernstein’s work on children’s sociolinguistic codes and his formulation of the contexts in which they are transmitted were the most influential in the field. However, as Diana Adlam points out, neither code nor context as Bernstein saw them can be properly grasped until they ...
Primary Socialization, Language and Education: 7 Volumes
1st Edition
By Various
May 10, 2025
This 7-volume set, first published between 1970 and 1977, forms part of the original 13-volume Primary Socialization, Language and Education series. The series consists of reports on research work carried out by the Sociological Research Unit of the University of London Institute of Education. The ...
Selection and Control: Teachers' Ratings of Children in the Infant School
1st Edition
By Walter Brandis, Basil Bernstein
May 10, 2025
Originally published in 1974, Selection and Control: Teachers' Ratings of Children in the Infant School consists of an analysis of teachers’ ratings of children in a middle-class and in a working-class area at the end of their first year and the end of second year of life in the infant school. ...
Social Class, Language and Communication
1st Edition
By Walter Brandis, D. Henderson
May 10, 2025
Originally published in 1970, Social Class, Language and Communication explores the different effects of parental social class, the ability and sex of the child and a measure of the mother’s reported communication to her child, upon aspects of five-year-old children’s speech. The study shows the ...
Social Control and Socialization: A Study of Class Differences in the Language of Maternal Control
1st Edition
By Jenny Cook-Gumperz
May 10, 2025
Basil Bernstein’s theory of social control was the foundation for this pioneer study of the language mothers use to socialize their children, and how it affects their understanding of social values and social attitudes as they grow older. Originally published in 1973, Dr Cook-Gumperz’s research was...
Talk Reform: Explorations in Language for Infant School Children
1st Edition
By D. M. Gahagan, G. A. Gahagan
May 10, 2025
Originally published in 1970, Talk Reform describes the development of an exploratory language enrichment programme devised by the authors and carried out by teachers in a group of primary schools in a working-class area of London. Inspired by Bernstein’s theory of different language codes and ...