Designing enhanced pedagogy based on Basil Bernstein's code theory

Drawing on Bernstein's code theory, this article sets out to formulate a logical model of enhanced pedagogy addressing the logic of acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes to learning required to improve lower socio-economic status (SES) students’ learning outcomes in academic subjects. In order to achieve this goal, constructive suggestions from related studies are analyzed and incorporated into a model that consists of a circle of six stages, comprised of core concept, explanation, information infusion, presentation, evaluation, and lexical expansion. Ultimately, this model aims to advance students’ reasoning ability by transforming their coding orientation to school knowledge from condensed to elaborated.