Abstract
Abstract The aim of this article is to challenge the prevailing view that English education has neglected the work of Emile Durkheim. In opposition to this view it will be argued that Durkheim's thesis that education is primarily concerned with the production of a given social type has in fact been influential in this country ever since the publication of Durkheim's Education and Sociology in 1922. This central Durkheimian thesis was first introduced into English educational theory, not by Basil Bernstein, but by Sir Fred Clarke. To demonstrate that this is the case an examination will be made of Clarke's major contributions with particular reference to his influence on two official educational reports of the early postwar period, School and Life and The Curriculum and Community in Wales.
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