The Italian Intermediate School: Knowledge and Control.

The article explores the thesis by author B. Bernstein concerning relationship between educational knowledge and social control by applying his model of collection and integrated codes and their power and control components to an examination of intermediate school in Italy. The school is examined for its congruence or lack of congruence to the model with particular reference to the degree of classification and framing operating within the system. The author attempts to explore the official and unofficial sources of curriculum change within Italian society in order to provide material for an answer to the problem concerning classification and framing structure.