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Legitimation Code Theory: Knowledge-Building in Research and Practice


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Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) first emerged as a framework for the study of knowledge and education and is now being used to analyse a growing range of different practices. It builds on the ideas of Bernstein and Bourdieu and integrates insights from diverse fields including linguistics, literary criticism, physics and anthropology. Taking an innovative multidisciplinary approach, this series presents work that uses LCT to explore and generate knowledge-building in education. The books focus on everything from cutting-edge developments in theory to new forms of educational practice, and spring from a wide range of disciplines – from physics to ballet, and dentistry to design.

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Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers Struggles for University Transformation in South Africa

Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for University Transformation in South Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo, Hanelie Adendorff, Margaret A.L. Blackie, Aslam Fataar, Paul Maluleka
January 29, 2024

Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonising education in the global South, focusing on the highly illuminating case of South African higher education. Galvanised by #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall student protests, South Africa has seen particularly ...

Demystifying Critical Reflection Improving Pedagogy and Practice with Legitimation Code Theory

Demystifying Critical Reflection: Improving Pedagogy and Practice with Legitimation Code Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Namala Tilakaratna, Eszter Szenes
January 24, 2024

Drawing on Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), this volume reveals the knowledge practices and language of critical reflection in a range of different subjects, making clear how it can be taught and learned. Critical thinking is widely held to be a key attribute required for successfully living, ...

Enhancing Science Education Exploring Knowledge Practices with Legitimation Code Theory

Enhancing Science Education: Exploring Knowledge Practices with Legitimation Code Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Margaret A.L. Blackie, Hanelie Adendorff, Marnel Mouton
August 15, 2022

This book helps meet an urgent need for theorized, accessible and discipline-sensitive publications to assist science, technology, engineering and mathematics educators. The book introduces Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and demonstrates how it can be used to improve teaching and learning in ...

Teaching Science Knowledge, Language, Pedagogy

Teaching Science: Knowledge, Language, Pedagogy

1st Edition

Edited By Karl Maton, J. R. Martin, Y. J. Doran
April 26, 2021

Science has never been more important, yet science education faces serious challenges. At present, science education research only sees half the picture, focusing on how students learn and their changing conceptions. Both teaching practice and what is taught, science knowledge itself, are missing. ...

Turning Access into Success Improving University Education with Legitimation Code Theory

Turning Access into Success: Improving University Education with Legitimation Code Theory

1st Edition

By Sherran Clarence
March 30, 2021

Teaching is crucial for supporting students’ chances of success in higher education, yet often makes limited use of theory to foster contextualized, systemic understandings of access and success. Theorized yet practical ways of empowering university educators are needed to develop their ...

Building Knowledge in Higher Education Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Legitimation Code Theory

Building Knowledge in Higher Education: Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Legitimation Code Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Christine Winberg, Sioux McKenna, Kirstin Wilmot
June 29, 2020

From pressures to become economically efficient to calls to act as an agent of progressive social change, higher education is facing a series of challenges. There is an urgent need for a rigorous and sophisticated research base to support the informed development of practices. Yet studies of ...

Accessing Academic Discourse Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory

Accessing Academic Discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory

1st Edition

Edited By J. R. Martin, Karl Maton, Y. J. Doran
November 25, 2019

Academic discourse is the gateway not only to educational success but to worlds of imagination, discovery and accumulated wisdom. Understanding the nature of academic discourse and developing ways of helping everyone access, shape and change this knowledge is critical to supporting social justice. ...

Knowledge-building Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory

Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Karl Maton, Susan Hood, Suellen Shay
May 16, 2017

Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’ extends and integrates insights from Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein to offer a framework for research and practice that overcomes ...

Knowledge and Knowers Towards a realist sociology of education

Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a realist sociology of education

1st Edition

By Karl Maton
August 07, 2013

We live in ‘knowledge societies’ and work in ‘knowledge economies’, but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While knowledge should be central to educational research, it focuses on processes of knowing and condemns studies of knowledge as essentialist. This book ...

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