Frances Christie is Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• Society, language and the mind - the meta-dialogism of Basil Bernstein's theory, Ruqaiya Hasan; context for learning, Carmel Cloran; preparing for school - developing a semantic style for educational knowledge, Clare Painter; the pedagogic device and the production of pedagogic discourse - a case example in early literacy education, Geoff Williams; mentoring semogenesis - "genre-based" literacy pedagogy, J.R. Martin; the pedagogic device and the teaching of English, Frances Christie; language, knowledge and authority in school mathematics, Robert Veel; culture, competence and schooling -approaches to literacy teaching in indigenous school education, David Rose; official knowledge and pedagogic identities, Basil Bernstein; pedagogic identities and educational reform in the 1990s - the cultural dynamic of national curricula, William Tyler.

Frances Christie is Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• Society, language and the mind - the meta-dialogism of Basil Bernstein's theory, Ruqaiya Hasan; context for learning, Carmel Cloran; preparing for school - developing a semantic style for educational knowledge, Clare Painter; the pedagogic device and the production of pedagogic discourse - a case example in early literacy education, Geoff Williams; mentoring semogenesis - "genre-based" literacy pedagogy, J.R. Martin; the pedagogic device and the teaching of English, Frances Christie; language, knowledge and authority in school mathematics, Robert Veel; culture, competence and schooling -approaches to literacy teaching in indigenous school education, David Rose; official knowledge and pedagogic identities, Basil Bernstein; pedagogic identities and educational reform in the 1990s - the cultural dynamic of national curricula, William Tyler.

Frances Christie is Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• Society, language and the mind - the meta-dialogism of Basil Bernstein's theory, Ruqaiya Hasan; context for learning, Carmel Cloran; preparing for school - developing a semantic style for educational knowledge, Clare Painter; the pedagogic device and the production of pedagogic discourse - a case example in early literacy education, Geoff Williams; mentoring semogenesis - "genre-based" literacy pedagogy, J.R. Martin; the pedagogic device and the teaching of English, Frances Christie; language, knowledge and authority in school mathematics, Robert Veel; culture, competence and schooling -approaches to literacy teaching in indigenous school education, David Rose; official knowledge and pedagogic identities, Basil Bernstein; pedagogic identities and educational reform in the 1990s - the cultural dynamic of national curricula, William Tyler.