LCT can be used to analyse socio-cultural practices beyond formal educational institutions, as these projects are showing:
- mobile learning in museum contexts
- freemasonry
- young people and ICTs
- youth justice conferencing
- Indigenous knowledges and the law: Native title claim
MUSEUMS
Research by Andy Dong and Lucila Carvalho (Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney) has embedded LCT(Specialisation) in the creation of a mobile e-learning tool that has been used in a museum to enable informal learning of design.
As a field, design encompasses many disciplines. This research examines how knowledge and identity are specialized within four design disciplines: engineering, architecture, digital media and fashion design. The research implements ways of supporting new designers’ inquiry into legitimate design practices, through an e-learning environment. The research design involved a qualitative study and survey to explore designers’ perceptions of how knowledge and knowers are specialised within each design discipline, and which strategies designers are using to recognise and realise legitimate design practices. A model of designers’ perceptions of knowledge and knowers and strategies used within the four design disciplines is proposed. The model is used to create an e-learning environment to experience design in the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia).
Lucila Carvalho (2010) A Sociology of Informal Learning in/about Design, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Sydney.
Carvalho, L. & Dong, A. (2010) Bringing a social realist approach into computer-supported learning environments: The Design Studio case study, paper presented at Sixth Basil Bernstein International Symposium, Brisbane, June-July.C
Carvalho, L., Dong, A. & Maton, K. (2009) Legitimating design: A sociology of knowledge account of the field, Design Studies 30(5): 483-502.
Carvalho, L. & Dong, A. (2008) Sociology of education and the design field: Operationalizing the theory, Fifth International Basil Bernstein Symposium, Cardiff University, July.
Carvalho, L. & Dong, A. (2008) Recognising and realising legitimate disciplines of design, Disciplinarity, Knowledge & Language: An international symposium, University of Sydney, Dec
Carvalho, L., & Dong, A. (2007) Knowledge and identity in the design field. In Zehner, R. & Reidsema, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of ConnectED International Conference on Design Education. Sydney, UNSW. ISBN - 978-00646-48147-0
FREEMASONRY
Celia Poulet (2011) PhD: Apprenticeship in French Freemasonry, Dept of Sociology, University of Provence, France.
Poulet, C. (2011) Le maniement du raisonnement analogique dans l’apprentissage maçonnique: transférabilité du sens et abstraction du langage. Signes, Discours et Sociétés, SDS_7 Représentations métaphoriques de l'univers environnant, 12 juillet.
Poulet, C. (2010) Recognising and revealing knowers: An enhanced Bernsteinian analysis of masonic recruitment and apprenticeship, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31(6): 793-812.
Poulet, C. (2008) Disciplining knowers: Masonic recruitment and apprenticeship, Disciplinarity, Knowledge & Language: An international symposium, University of Sydney, Dec.
YOUNG PEOPLE & ICTs
Living and Learning in a Knowledge Society: The implications of young adults’ knowledge-creating practices for higher education, S. Bennett & K. Maton, ARC Discovery Project grant ($80K, 2009-2010).
This project is investigating knowledge creation by young Australian adults who will be the workers and leaders in tomorrow's knowledge economy. By focusing on university students creating knowledge across their everyday and academic activities, the project examines how living and learning in a knowledge society impact each other. LCT is central to this project, providing the means for conceptualising and analysing different forms of knowledge and different modalities of knowledge-creating practices across different social contexts.
YOUTH JUSTICE CONFERENCING
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M., Cleirigh, C. & Dwyer, P. (in press) Users in uses of language: embodied identity in Youth Justice Conferencing, Text and Talk.
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M. & Dwyer, P. (2012) Beyond redemption: Choice and consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing, in F. Yan & J.J. Webster (eds) Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and application, London: Equinox.
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M. & Dwyer, P. (2011) Angry boys: Casting identity in NSW Youth Justice Conferencing, Language and the Law: Special event of ALAA, ALANZ & ALS conferences, Canberra, Dec.
Zappavigna, M. (2011) Keynote paper - Analysing body language in NSW Youth Justice Conferencing, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association National Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Sept.
Martin, J.R. (2010) Plenary paper - Beyond redemption: Faith, choice and consequence in youth justice conferencing, 12th International and National Conference on Discourse Analysis, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Nov.
Martin, J.R. & Zappavigna, M. (2010) Beyond redemption: Choice and consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing, in F. Yan (ed) Proceedings of the 36th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference. Beijing, Higher Education Press.
Martin, J.R. (2009) Realisation, instantiation and individuation: some thoughts on identity in youth justice conferencing. DELTA - Documentação de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada 25. 2009. 549-583. (Also Keynote paper, 36th International Systemic Functional Congress, Tsinghua University, China, July 2009). [see also Systemic functional linguistics]
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES & THE LAW: Native title claim
Rebecca O'Brien (PhD, current) Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing, Ways of Saying: The role of strategic legitimation in native title claims, PhD, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia.