LCT

LCT is a field activity. It involves scholars and research students from Australia, France, South Africa, Ireland, the UK and many other countries. Each time LCT is draw on to help explain a problem, the research speaks back to the theory, either forcing clarifications, developments and revisions or leading to the creation of external languages of description that are a part of the framework and which others may adopt or adapt for their own work. So, scholars using LCT seriously typically become contributing authors to the development of the field (see the List of publications and the List of PhDs).

The founding author of LCT is Karl Maton. He completed his undergraduate, Masters and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge and has worked for the University of Cambridge, the Open University, Keele University, University of Wollongong, and (currently) the University of Sydney. Karl has published in education, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and linguistics.

The nearest thing to a personal piece of writing by Karl Maton has nothing to do with LCT.  Discussing research conducted as an undergraduate student in the late 1980s, Maton explores what The Smiths meant to their fans and what it was like researching a subculture like Smiths fans when one is a member.

Maton, K. (2010) Last night we dreamt that somebody loved us: Smiths fans and me in the late 1980s, in Campbell, S. & Coulter, C. (Eds.) Why Pamper Life's Complexities? Essays on The Smiths. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 179-194.

Journals

• Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Sociology of Education (2011-)
• Member of Editorial Board of British Journal of Sociology of Education (2011-)
• Elected member of Editorial Committee of Journal of Critical Realism (2003-).
• Guest editor of academic journals: Special double issue of The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies on cultural studies in education (2004); Special issue of International Journal of Cultural Studies on cultural studies and education (2002).
• Appointed member of Editorial Committee of Three-D (Media Communication & Cultural Studies Association, MeCCSA), October 2002

Conference organizing

• Co-chair of organizing committee of Seventh International Basil Bernstein Symposium, June 2012,  University of Provence, France
• Member of organizing committee of Sixth International Basil Bernstein Symposium, June-July 2010, Griffith University, Brisbane
• Co-organiser (with Prof Frances Christie) of Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language: An international conference, University of Sydney, Dec 2008.
• Co-organiser (with Dr Rob Moore) of Social Realism in Education: An international colloquium, University of Cambridge, July 2008.
• Organiser of Engaging Realism ongoing seminar series, University of Sydney (2007-2009).
• Organiser of 3 conference panels on cultural studies and education at the 3rd and 4th Crossroads in Cultural Studies International Conferences, 2000 (Birmingham University, UK) and 2002 (Tampere, Finland).

Visiting Professorships

• Honorary Visiting Professor, Rhodes University, South Africa, 2011-2013
• Elected Invited Professor, University of Provence, France, 2011

Invited Visiting Scholar

• Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Nov 2010
• Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning, Rhodes University, South Africa, Nov 2010
• Département de Sociologie, Université de Provence, June-July 2008
• Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Dec 2004 and Nov 2005

Associations

• President, Australasian Association for Critical Realism (2008-2011).
• General Secretary, and elected member of Committee of Australasian Association for Critical Realism (2006-2008).

Keynote Addresses

• Maton, K. (2012) The next generation: Inter-disciplinary research into strange new worlds, 39th International Systemic Functional Congress, University of Technology, Sydney, July.
• Maton, K. (2012) Shining a light on knowledge: What is ‘LCT’ and why is it useful for science education?, Illuminating Knowledge: Exploring the nature of knowledge in the natural sciences - 1st annual Legitimation Code Theory science and mathematics symposium, Feb 2012, University of Sydney
• Maton, K. (2011) Mastering semantic waves: A key to cumulative knowledge and social justice, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Annual Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Sept
• Maton, K. (2010) Reclaiming knowers: Advancing Bernstein’s sociology of knowledge. Sixth International Basil Bernstein Symposium, Brisbane, June-July.
• Maton, K. (2009) ‘Getting clear about knowledge’. Knowledge and Curriculum in Higher Education Symposium, University of Cape Town, June.
• Maton, K. (2008) Knowledge-building: How can we create powerful and influential ideas? Disciplinarity, Knowledge & Language: An international symposium, University of Sydney, Dec.
• Maton, K. (2008) Critical realism, social realism and the epistemic device. Critical Realism and Education: An international conference, Institute of Education, University of London, July.
• Maton, K. (2007) Segmented learning: Knowledge-building in contemporary education, Explorations in Knowledge, Society & Education, University of Cambridge, June.
• Maton, K. (2007) Semantic gravity and segmented learning: The problem of building knowledge and creating knowers, Enjeux Sociaux, Savoirs, Langage, Pedagogie: Actualité et fécondité de l’oeuvre de Basil Bernstein, University of Lyon, France, May-June.
• Maton, K. (2004) Knowledge structures and knower structures in intellectual fields, Reclaiming Knowledge: Registers of discourse in the community and school, University of Sydney, Australia, Dec.
• Maton, K. (2002) Building a Tower of Babel: Towards a social science of knowledge, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, July.