Category: LCT in action

Over at Teaching London Computing, check it out.

Here's a blog post about using semantic waves to write better paragraphs in essays.

A blog on how to breach this gap using Semantics and the case of nursing studies.

Nóra Wünsch-Nagy wrote about making connections between kinds of knowledge using semantics.

Hanelie Adendorff wrote about how LCT helps in actual teaching practices.

Wits University wrote about the newly appointed Director of the Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) Hub, Prof Lee Rusznyak and her efforts in helping Wits students through the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. It focuses on her work with the Teacher Choices in Action initiative that has helped thousands of students in South Africa as an alternative to school practicals within the context of the global...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation published Hello World, the big book of computing pedagogy which includes an article on the use of semantic waves for this purpose, based on the work of Paul Curzon and Karl Maton.

Legitimation Code theory is used to prepare thousands of South African teacher trainees for practice-based learning. Concepts from LCT empower trainees to analyse how teachers work with knowledge across different subject areas and year groups. They learn why practices may work in some classroom contexts but not in others. Since it was launched in August 2020, more than 40 000 trainees from...

Ian Siebörger wrote about the recent South African unrest from the viewpoint of linguistics with the help of LCT's constellations.

The UK National Center for Computing Education has adopted semantic waves as one of their 12 core pedagogy principles. This LCT idea is now embedded in the way they design their resources for teacher CPD across England and for their comprehensive 'A level' (and coming GCSE) resources developed for student online learning across the country.

A series of videos on using LCT to teach English for Academic Purposes.

Catherine Elliott wrote an article on Hello World on teaching computing using semantic waves

Jonathan Bean wrote about sustainable housing and building using LCT as a lens to teach these ideas.

Olwyn Alexander wrote about how to use Autonomy to understand spontaneous teachable moments in the classroom.

Over at the DigiTeacher Dorian Love wrote about unpacking racism using LCT's constellations.

Quark Education published an article on writing in science regarding secondary education students.

Steve Rollet even dreams about LCT while sleeping! In his waking hours he wrote some examples and explanations on how to use LCT's Autonomy.

Future learning has a course on how to teach programming using semantic waves.

Erik the linguist wrote about one-sentence paragraphs in academic writing using semantic waves.

Public Lecture at the PhD Week (Rhodes University) on 30 September 2014 by Prof Karl Maton: Heretical Knowledge - Knowledge-Blindness in Education. From Nompilo Tshum

LCT Centre Director Karl Maton's keynote talk for BALEAP 2017 at Bristol, UK.

At the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid there is a longitudinal research project studying CLIL students using semantic waves.

Teaching Computing published a post on how to teach computational concepts using semantic waves.

Ian Siebörger analyzed the media takes on lockdown rules using LCT's constellation anaylsis to find out how 'we become divided'. Here he reflects on the current status of the situation in South Africa.

Steve Rollett reflected on how LCT's constellations and cosmologies can help analyze the cosmology of education, especially after the impact COVID-19 has had.

Dorian Love has written on how to decolonize literature studies using LCT's Semantics, applying semantic gravity and semantic density to analyze poetry.

Steve Rollett wrote about focusing on knowledge itself using semantics, using examples of an online review of the Sonic the Hedgehog film and of an online class.

Teaching London Computing has published a series of resources on using semantic waves.

Olwyn Alexander wrote about metaphors and using Semantics to approach English for Academic Purposes (EAP).

Although it was moved from its initial date at the end of this year to 2021, Steve Kirk will present a keynote titled 'Thinking globally, practising and theorising locally: Knowledge and knower-building in EAP'.

Dorian Love over at the DigiTeacher wrote about what has been learned so far in regards to online teaching and learning due to the current Corona–imposed lockdown and quarantine. He contextualises it with an overview of the current three dimensions of LCT so it also doubles as a refresher!

Dorian Love has written on using semantic waves to help students program robots.

The University of Sheffield published a set of resources using LCT’s Specialization to help students engage with critical thinking and writing in one of their online resources.

Steve Rollett wrote another piece on curriculum development using LCT's Semantics!

Steve Rollet wrote a piece on curriculum design on his blog!

The Teaching Computing blog posted a resource that uses Semantics to help teach computer algorithms.

Ian Johnson from the University of Portsmouth wrote about using semantic waves to help students bridge the gap between theory and practice, for the Take 5 blog.

Jonathan Bean wrote for the Association for Computing Machinery‘s journal Interactions a post introducing LCT’s Specialization, linking it to questions about the human–computer interaction.

Dorian Love over at The DigiTeacher wrote a post on Computational Technology and the ‘Ideal Knower’, linked here.

Richard Ingold from Navitas wrote a blog post on learning the rules of academic writing by means of LCT’s notion of semantic waves. Check it out!

Although from 2015, this blog post elaborates also on the use of semantic wave when teaching English as Additional Language.

The School of Social and Political Sciences magazine published a winter 2019 highlights of the department’s achievements, which includes a piece by Dr Tessa Lunney on the impact LCT has had on education theory and practice.

The University of Sydney published a piece on the research impact that LCT Theory and practice has on education: “Researchers at the University of Sydney are leading a new way of thinking about education that is changing teaching and learning around the world, from preschool to university and from physics to ballet, by bringing knowledge into the picture.”

Paul Curzon from the Queen Mary University of London wrote a post on teaching programming by means of semantic waves.

The Thesis Whisperer published a post on the use of semantic waves for academic writing. You can read the blog post here! For further empirical works done on the issue, here is the tag for academic writing in the LCT Knowledge Database.

According to linguistics scholars in Mexico, Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) is the next big thing for many in the field of systemic functional linguistics. The theory, created by University of Sydney Sociologist Professor Karl Maton, is changing the way linguists work and has made a significant impact in South Africa, USA, and China. The linguists adopting LCT are using it to...

In a 2019 STEM for all video showcase presenter Cory Buxton mentions the use of semantic waves and semantic gravity as helpful theoretical tools to help young students bridge the gaps toward STEM education.

An approach to education that is based in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is being translated from English into four languages at the same time. LCT (short for ‘Legitimation Code Theory’) is a framework for understanding and changing education that examines the forms taken by knowledge, such as its changing complexity. LCT is now the basis of research and classroom practice in at...

The newest thing in China right now is Legitimation Code Theory. The two FASS Directors of the LCT Centre for Knowledge, Director Professor Karl Maton of SSPS and Deputy Director Professor James R Martin of SLAM, have made LCT the must-know theory in China. Professor Karl Maton, Director of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building and Department of Sociology, has just finished a 10-day tour of...

The curriculum of an Engineering Faculty in South Africa is being designed using a theory whose centre is the Faculty of Arts and Social Science. Dr Karin Wolff, an associate member of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building in FASS, has been appointed by Stadio Multiversity, a new private university in South Africa with campuses spread across the country, and charged with creating a new...

LCT is having real social impact in places such as South Africa. LCT, or Legitimation Code Theory, is a framework for understanding and changing knowledge practices in different areas of social life. It allows people to explore the ‘rules of the game’ in different fields and to then develop ways of teaching more people to succeed, or to change those rules. In South Africa, the rules that...

The highlight of the linguistics conference calendar is the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress, or ISFC. This year the Congress was held at Boston College, Boston USA with multiple sessions running over five full days, as well as a Pre-Congress Institute for workshops. Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) was represented in 23 different papers and colloquia from 39 different...

The LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building has created a new YouTube channel and is extending its impact via video. Ranging from university lectures and keynote speeches to thoughts on the community of LCT scholars, the YouTube channel has become the guide for how to speak about Legitimation Code Theory. Some of the most important videos are keynote speeches from LCT2, the Second International...