New Imaginings of Reading for a New Moral Order: A Review of the Production, Transmission and Acquisition of a New Pedagogic Culture in the UK

✍ Scribed by Jill Bourne

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-5898
• DOI: 10.1016/s0898-5898(99)00016-9

✦ Synopsis

Normalizing processes produce norms and their agencies, which are rarely free of the contradictions, cleavages, and dilemmas they are set up to control. Socialization into norms from this point of view, is then always socialization both into another's voice and into one's own yet to be voiced. (Bernstein, 1990, p. 159) In this article, I want to use some of Bernstein's constructs as developed in The structuring of pedagogic discourse,'' Volume 4 of Class, codes, and control (1990), as illuminative metaphors to explore the messy ground of the present. Internationally, there is a trend towards increased direct government intervention in areas of pedagogy, once the prerogative of educationalists. This shift in control is shaping new popular'' pedagogic cultures and new definitions of literacy. In order to analyze the underlying structure of this politically orientated change process, this article will take the case of educational policy and practice in England in the transmission of literacy.

THE NEW PEDAGOGY

In 1997, the UK saw a change of government for the first time in well over a decade, from the Conservative party to New Labour, which promised to leave