This paper is to explore the historicity and orientation of educational policies after the
5.31 Educational Reform from the perspective of Bernstein’s famous conceptions: collection
and integrated code. The policies have taken essentially leftist objectives of equal schooling
and opportunities for all and utilized conservative means of choice, competition, and
efficiency to accomplish those goals. Also, the policies have positive and negative effects on
the structural and social changes of teaching profession: collective responsibility and
horizontal relationship vs. normalization and isomorphism. The reform has produced a
burgeoning policy contradiction. The intent of the Reform was to orient a more integrated
code, creating a decentralized, loosely coupled system in which teachers and principals can
exert control to allow for a freer, efficient school system. However, the accountability aspect
of the system has the opposite orientation, the collection code, creating criteria of control in
which the state?while not directly controlling schools?exert strong influence.