LCT is a practical theory of practice. LCT is being used in a rapidly growing range of different substantive research projects, either as the principal theoretical framework or in conjunction with other theoretical approaches. The framework is highly flexible and capable of being used at all levels, from macro to micro, and in a variety of ways.
This page links to topics and themes with examples of these projects. They span: formal and informal learning; school and higher education; science, social science and humanities; production of new knowledge, creation of curriculum, and teaching and learning; qualitative and quantitative methodologies; numerous methods of data collection and analysis; and inter-disciplinary integration with ideas from other approaches.
Links to research networks, scholars and postgraduate students can be found in the Movement and List of PhDs pages.
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LCT is being used to study a wide variety of issues in higher education, including:
- change in higher education
- internationalisation
- disciplinary forms of writing and academic literacies
- autonomy, commercialisation and regionalisation
- assessment
- cultural studies
- design studies
- history
- physics
- nursing
- sociology
- Indigenous studies
- journalism and media studies
- psychology and management studies
- service learning
LCT is being used to look at a range of issues in schooling, including:
- Music
- English
- History
- biology
- mathematics
- special education
- educational technology across the school curriculum
- school choice
LCT can be used to analyse socio-cultural practices beyond formal educational institutions, as these highly varied projects are showing.
- mobile learning in museum contexts
- freemasonry
- young people and ICTs
- youth justice conferencing
- Indigenous knowledges and the law: Native title claim
- science on Twitter
- personal ads online
SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
A series of research projects are bringing together LCT with SFL in innovative and fruitful ways to look at a very varied range of issues, including:
- cumulative and segmented learning in schooling
- disciplinary forms of writing
- internationalisation of higher education
- online learning
- higher education curriculum
- second-language learning
- youth justice
- online communities and identity
The study of information and communication technologies and educational technology represents a rapidly growing area of LCT research, including studies of:
- a major federal initiative in schooling
- effects of constructivist online pedagogy for students
- mobile learning in informal contexts such as museums
- young people's knowledge-creating experiences with technology within and beyond formal education
- myth-busting the notion of 'digital natives'
- teaching subjects such as public health and business studies online