Karl Maton is Director of the "LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building"at the University of Sydney. Karl is the creator of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), which is being widely used to shape research and practice in education, sociology and linguistics. LCT is now an international and multidisciplinary community, including scholars in Australia, China, Europe, South Africa, South America, the UK and the USA, among others. There is a friendly and highly active community of LCT postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers at the University of Sydney, including: S-Club, a weekly data analysis workshop; LCT Roundtable, an internationally-renowned fortnightly seminar series; and LCT-OG, a self-organised PhD support group.
Karl Maton completed his PhD on The Field of Higher Education at the University of Cambridge. He has extensively published in sociology, education and linguistics, and previously worked at the University of Cambridge, The Open University, Keele University and the University of Wollongong. Karl is currently Honorary Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa. His most recent books include: Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a realist sociology of education (2014, Routledge), which sets out key ideas of LCT, Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory (2016, Routledge), a primer for using the approach.
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knowledge-building is an open-ended process. This book as a product represents a compromise between desires for definitive exposition and demands for timely relase. Ideas will continue to develop.