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List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Legitimation Code Theory: Building knowledge about knowledge-building
Karl Maton

PART I - A PRACTICAL THEORY: PUTTING LCT TO WORK

Chapter 2 LCT in Qualitative Research: Creating a translation device for studying constructivist pedagogy
Karl Maton and Rainbow Tsai-Hung Chen

Chapter 3 LCT in Mixed-Methods Research: Evolving an instrument for quantitative data
Karl Maton and Sarah K. Howard

Chapter 4 LCT in Praxis: Creating an e-learning environment for informal learning of principled knowledge
Karl Maton, Lucila Carvalho and Andy Dong

Chapter 5 LCT and Systemic Functional Linguistics: Enacting complementary theories for explanatory power
Karl Maton, J.R. Martin and Erika Matruglio

PART II - KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING IN EDUCATION AND BEYOND: STUDIES USING LCT

Chapter 6 Ethnographies on the move, stories on the rise: Methods in the humanities Susan Hood

Chapter 7 Enabling knowledge progression in vocational curricula: Design as a case study
Suellen Shay and Diane Steyn

Chapter 8 Secondary school English literary studies: Cultivating a knower code
Frances Christie

Chapter 9 Putting physics knowledge in the hot seat: The semantics of student understandings of thermodynamics
Helen Georgiou

Chapter 10 Musicality and musicianship: Specialization in jazz studies
Jodie L. Martin

Chapter 11 Knowledge and knowers in tacit pedagogic contexts: Freemasonry in France
Célia Poulet

PART III - RESOURCES FOR KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING

Chapter 12 Starting points: Resources and architectural glossary
Karl Maton

References

Index

Karl Maton is Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Susan Hood is Associate Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Suellen Shay is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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 segmentalism. This book shows how LCT can be used to build knowledge about education and society. Comprising original papers by an international and multidisciplinary group of scholars, Knowledge-building offers the first primer in this fast-growing approach.
Through case studies of major research projects, Part I provides practical insights into how LCT can be used to build knowledge by:
- enabling dialogue between theory and data in qualitative research
- bringing together quantitative and qualitative methodologies in mixed-methods research
- relating theory and practice in praxis
- conducting interdisciplinary studies with systemic functional linguistics
Part II offers a series of studies of pressing issues facing knowledge-building in education and beyond, encompassing:
- diverse subject areas, including physics, English, cultural studies, music, and design
- educational sites: schooling, vocational education, and higher education
- practices of research, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
- both education and informal learning contexts, such as museums and masonic lodges
Carefully sequenced and interrelated, these chapters form a coherent collection that gives a unique insight into one of the most thought-provoking and innovative ways of building knowledge about knowledge-building in education and society to have emerged this century. This book is essential reading for all serious students and scholars of education, sociology and linguistics.