LCT is a coalition of minds that reaches across a number of continents to embrace many scholars and postgraduate researchers. There are several loose networks of researchers interested in LCT (alongside other approaches) that engage in regular events.
GLOBAL NETWORK
Feel free to join the LCT email listserv to make contact with fellow researchers and postgraduate students elsewhere: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCTheory/
As well as the groups above, there are LCT scholars and academics in China, Taiwan, Sweden, UK, USA, Denmark, Spain, Brazil, and elsewhere. Join the listserv and find out who is near you!
SYDNEY NETWORK
Scholars and students from across New South Wales, from both LCT and SFL, meet regularly in Sydney during semester time at the fortnightly Roundtable. Contacts: Sue Hood ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Karl Maton ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). For a list of meetings, including the latest, go to Sydney Roundtable.
LCT course: In semester 2 of 2011 Karl Maton gave a lecture series on LCT. For those who attended (and others who ask nicely), audio recordings and slides are available on the Transmission page.
SOUTH AFRICAN NETWORK
A dynamic and emerging group of scholars and students in South Africa are using LCT, sometimes in conjunction with SFL or critical realism, to address issues of concern to education in South Africa and beyond. Contacts: Suellen Shay, University of Cape Town ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ); Jenni Case, University of Cape Town ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ); and Jo-Anne Vorster, Rhodes University ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). For publications, see Practice and List of publications.
Events:
November 2012: University of Cape Town
Details to be finalised, but may involve seminars, workshops, individual supervisions etc.
October 2012: Rhodes University
Seminars and workshops at Rhodes University for doctoral students and staff. Details to be finalised. Contact: Sioux McKenna ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
November 2010: Rhodes University
A series of seminars on the development of code theory, from Basil Bernstein to Legitimation Code Theory, and individual workshops on research with Karl Maton
November 2010: University of Cape Town
A series of seminars on the development of code theory, from Basil Bernstein to Legitimation Code Theory, and individual workshops on research with Karl Maton
June-July 2009: University of Cape Town: Knowledge and Curriculum in Higher Education
A two-day conference followed by a two-day Legitimation Code Theory Workshop, organized by a team led by Assoc Prof Suellen Shay, CHED, University of Cape Town ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
Scholars include:
Suellen Shay, University of Cape Town, is drawing on Bernstein and LCT to reconceptualise issues in curriculum change and assessment.
Kathy Luckett, University of Cape Town, is exploring how to apply LCT to curriculum development work in higher education. Kathy recently conducted a case study in sociology using LCT and will in future work focus on interdisciplinary programmes using LCT to analyse whether and how disciplinary integration is achieved.
Jenni Case, University of Cape Town, specialises in exploring and improving student experiences, especially in engineering.
Jo-Anne Vorster, Rhodes University, is particularly interested in the curriculum development processes of journalism and media studies, which 'face both ways', both into the academy and outward to professions.
Amanda Hlengwa, Rhodes University, is conducting research into service-learning in higher education.
Yael Shalem and Lynne Slonimsky, both University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, are using LCT(Semantics) to analyse assessment and how students can be inducted into cumulative learning.
FRENCH NETWORK
Several young, promising scholars at the University of Provence are using LCT to address innovative topics, under the guidance of Dr. Philippe Vitale, expert in the work of Basil Bernstein who is interested in all matters concerning knowledge and education ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Philippe Vitale and Karl Maton are co-chairing the organisation of the Seventh International Basil Bernstein Symposium, 28-30 June, 2012, in Aix-en-Provence.
Events:
June 2011, Aix-en-Provence: Karl Maton was Elected Visiting Professor at University of Provence and presented lectures on LCT and ran individual research meetings.
June, Aix-en-Provence 2010: Seminars and individual research meetings with Karl Maton.
June 2010, Paris: Lecture by Karl Maton at Paris 8 University
June 2008, Aix-en-Provence: Seminars and individual research meetings with Karl Maton
Researchers include:
Philippe Vitale (University of Provence) has used semantic gravity to analyse the portrayal of slavery in relation to the French colony of Reunion Island (see List of publications).
Celia Poulet (PhD, 2011) Apprenticeship in French Freemasonry, Department of Sociology, University of Provence, France.
Sophia Stavrou (PhD, current) Curricular Transformations in European Higher Education and the Recontextualisation of Sociological Knowledge, Department of Sociology, University of Provence, France.
Ariane Richard-Bossez (PhD, current) works on primary school, Department of Sociology, University of Provence, France.
Pascal Espérance (PhD) is from Réunion Island and studying economics curricula, Paris VIII University, Paris.
IRISH NETWORK
A group of scholars centred at University College Dublin are using LCT to address issues concerning nursing education, including Martin McNamara ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Gerard Fealy and Ruth Geraghty. They are producing a fast-growing list of publications in this area (see List of publications).
Events
29 June - 1st July 2011: meetings with Karl Maton to discuss research and following seminars:.
30th June, 2011 - Sociology of education beyond Bourdieu and Bernstein: Legitimation Code Theory
1st July 2011 - The heartbeat of knowledge-building: How the ‘semantic wave’ is fundamental to just about everything we do in education
SCIENCE NETWORK
A group of young scholars are exploring science and mathematics education, including Christine Lindstrom ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Yaegan Doran, Helen Georgiou, Jing Hao, Michael Tan and Victoria Millar (see PG Research page).
29 Feb 2012: Illuminating Knowledge: Exploring the nature of knowledge in the natural sciences, 1st Annual Legitimation Code Theory Science and Mathematics Symposium, University of Sydney.
Organised by Manju Sharma ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Director of the Institute for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, University of Sydney.