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Legitimation Code Theory

Description: A framework in education and sociology for analyzing how knowledge, knowers, and practices are legitimized in teaching and disciplinary fields.
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Making semantic waves: A key to cumulative knowledge-building
2013 · Karl Maton · Linguistics and Education · 418
Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a realist sociology of education
2013 · Karl Maton · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 337
Knowledge and Knowers
2013 · Karl Maton · Routledge eBooks · 285
Jointly constructing semantic waves: Implications for teacher training
2013 · Lucy Macnaught, Karl Maton, et al. · Linguistics and Education · 179
Knowledge-building: educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory
2016 · Sherran Clarence · Innovations in Education and Teaching International · 156
Embedded literacy: Knowledge as meaning
2013 · J.R. Martin · Linguistics and Education · 142
Conceptualizing curriculum differentiation in higher education: a sociology of knowledge point of view
2012 · Suellen Shay · British Journal of Sociology of Education · 126
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The discourse of geography: Ordering and explaining the experiential world
1989 · Peter Wignell, J.R. Martin, et al. · Linguistics and Education · 126
Choosing music: exploratory studies into the low uptake of music GCSE
2008 · Alexandra Lamont, Karl Maton · British Journal of Music Education · 102
Building Powerful Knowledge: The Significance of Semantic Waves
2014 · Karl Maton · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 93
Knowledge-building
2015 · Karl Maton, Susan Hood, et al. · Routledge eBooks · 91
Curriculum reform in higher education: a contested space
2015 · Suellen Shay · Teaching in Higher Education · 88
Creating semantic waves: using Legitimation Code Theory as a tool to aid the teaching of chemistry
2014 · Margaret A. L. Blackie · Chemistry Education Research and Practice · 87
Semantic density: A translation device for revealing complexity of knowledge practices in discourse, part 1—wording
2017 · Karl Maton, Y. J. Doran · ONOMAZEIN · 69
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Time travel: The role of temporality in enabling semantic waves in secondary school teaching
2012 · Erika Matruglio, Karl Maton, et al. · Linguistics and Education · 68
Uncovering Types of Knowledge in Concept Maps
2019 · Ian M. Kinchin, Aet Möllits, et al. · Education Sciences · 65
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Theorising knowledge practices: a missing piece of the educational technology puzzle
2011 · Sarah Howard, Karl Maton · Research in Learning Technology · 63
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Knowledge and knowers. Towards a realist sociology of education
2014 · Jill Thistlethwaite · Journal of Interprofessional Care · 59
Cumulative knowledge-building for inclusive education in initial teacher education
2019 · Elizabeth Walton, Lee Rusznyak · European Journal of Teacher Education · 57
Recovering Knowledge for Science Education Research: Exploring the “Icarus Effect” in Student Work
2014 · Helen Georgiou, Karl Maton, et al. · Canadian Journal of Science Mathematics and Technology Education · 54
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The Knowledge Practices of Critical Thinking
2015 · Eszter Szenes, Namala Tilakaratna, et al. · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 52
Systemic functional linguistics: the perfect match for content and language integrated learning
2020 · Ana Llinares, Anne McCabe · International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism · 51
A TALL order? Legitimation Code Theory for academic language and learning
2014 · Karl Maton · Journal of academic language and learning · 41
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Revisiting field: Specialized knowledge in secondary school science and humanities discourse
2017 · J. R. Martin · ONOMAZEIN · 38
Exploring the nature of disciplinary teaching and learning using Legitimation Code Theory Semantics
2015 · Sherran Clarence · Teaching in Higher Education · 36
Works count: 672
Citation count: 5,656
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