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Maton, K. (1999) Extra curricular activity required: Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of educational knowledge, in Grenfell, M. & Kelly, M. (eds) Pierre Bourdieu: Language, culture and education (pp.197–210). Bern: Peter Lang.

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Zhao, Q. (PhD, 2012) Knowledge Building in Physics Textbooks in Primary and Secondary Schools, Xiamen University, China.

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Vorster, J-A. (PhD, 2010) A Social-Realist Analysis of Collaborative Curriculum Development Processes in an Academic Department at a South African University, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Wolff, K. (PhD, 2015) Negotiating Disciplinary Boundaries in Engineering Problem-Solving Practice, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Weekes, T. (PhD, 2014) From Dot Points to Disciplinarity: The theory and practice of disciplinary literacies in secondary schooling, University of New England, Australia.

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Vidal Lizama, M. (PhD, 2014) Theorising Popular Education as a Knowledge Practice: The case of Chile, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UTS, Australia.

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Vahed, A. (D.Tech, 2014) Ensuring Quality Pedagogy through Games in Dental Technology at a Selected University of Technology, Durban University of Technology, South Africa.

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Van Heerden, M. (PhD, 2017) What lies beneath tutors’ feedback? Examining the role of feedback in developing ‘knowers’ in English Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Tweed, B. (PhD, 2016) Tātai Kōrero i Ngaro, Tātai Kōrero eRangona: Legitimation and the Learning of Curriculum Mathematics in an Indigenous Māori School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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Tilakaratna, N. (PhD, 2016) Identity Management in Sri Lankan English Textbooks, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Tan, M. (PhD, 2012) Knowledge, Truth, and Schooling for Social Change: Studying environmental education in science classrooms, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.

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Tann, K. (PhD, 2011) Semogenesis of a Nation: An iconography of Japanese identity, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Shuker, L. (PhD, 2010) “It’ll Look Good on Your Personal Statement”: A multi-case study of self-marketing amongst 16-19 year olds applying to university, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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Stavrou, S. (PhD, 2012) Réforme de L’Université et Transformations Curriculaires: des activités de recontextualisation aux effets sur les savoirs, Department of Sociology, University of Provence, France.

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Shi, C. (PhD, 2017) Affiliation Through Value Negotiation in Chinese Criminal Courtroom Argumentation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

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Roach, G. (PhD, 2016) Critical Thinking in Knowledge Production: Realisations in Masters’ students research essays, University of Nottingham China Campus, Ningbo, China.

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Ojo, E. (PhD, 2016) On Teaching Economics 1: A qualitative case study of a South African university. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Poulet, C. (PhD, 2011) L’apprentissage d’une pratique democratique: L’exemple de la prise de parole en Franc-Maconnerie, Department of Sociology, University of Provence, France.

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Moncayo, V.A.L. (PhD, 2014) A Sustainability Cosmology: An analysis of a “green” company’s sustainability report, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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Mkhize, T. (PhD, 2015) An Analysis of the Certificate of the Theory of Accounting Knowledge and Knower Structures: A case study of professional knowledge, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Mistri, G. (PhD, 2016) A Social Realist Analysis of participation in Academic Professional Development for the integration of Digital Technologies in Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Millar, V. (PhD, 2012) The Structuring of Knowledge for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Meidell Sigsgaard, A-V. (PhD, 2013) Who Knows What?: The Teaching of knowledge and knowers in a fifth grade Danish as a Second Language classroom, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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Matruglio, E. (PhD, 2014) Humanities’ Humanity: Construing the social in HSC Modern and Ancient History, Society and Culture, and Community and Family Studies, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

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Maton, K. (PhD, 2005) The Field of Higher Education: A sociology of reproduction, transformation, change and the conditions of emergence for cultural studies, University of Cambridge, UK.

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Martin, J.L. (PhD, 2013) On Notes and Knowers: The representation, evaluation and legitimation of jazz, Discipline of Linguistics, University of Adelaide, Australia.

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McPherson, J. (PhD, 2014) Comparing ‘Apples with Apples’: Professional accounting practices in university classroom discourse, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia.

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McCartney, P. (PhD, 2016) Shanti Mandir: Authenticity, economy and emotion in a yoga ashram, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Australia.

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McNamara, M. (EdD, 2008) Of Bedpans and Ivory Towers: The discursive construction of the nursing academic, The Open University, UK.

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Lindstrøm, C. (PhD, 2010) Link Maps and Map Meetings: A theoretical and experimental case for stronger scaffolding in first year university physics education, School of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Lilliedahl, J. (PhD, 2013) Musik i (ut)bildning: Gränsdragningar och inramningar i läroplans(kon)texter för gymnasieskolan, Diss, Örebro University, Sweden.

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Larsen, V. (PhD, 2014) Disciplinarity and Inter-disciplinarity in Problem Based Learning [Faglighed og Problembaseret Læring: Vidensstrukturer i professionsuddannelser], Institut for Planlægning, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark. [Danish language]

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Hollis-Turner, S.L. (EdD, 2015) Educating for Employability in Office Environments, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

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Glenn, E. (PhD, 2016). From Clashing to Matching: Examining the legitimation codes that underpin shifting views about climate change, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

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Hay, C. (PhD, 2014) Learning to Inhabit the Chair: Knowledge transfer in contemporary Australian director training, Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Giloi, S. (PhD, 2016) The Knowledge-Knower Structures Used in the Assessment of Graphic Design Practical Work in a Multi-Campus Context, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Georgiou, H. (PhD, 2014) Doing Positive Work: On student understanding of thermodynamics, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Australia

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Feng, C. (PhD, 2014) Metadiscourse in Research Articles: A comparative study across disciplines and research paradigms, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Gao, L. (EdD, 2007) The Changing Context of Tertiary English Teaching in China and Teachers’ responses to the challenges, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia.

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Ellery, K. (PhD, 2016) Epistemological Access in a Science Foundation Course: A social realist perspective, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Fagan, D. (PhD, 2014) Social Construction of Pedagogical ICT Discourse: The case of a university of technology in South Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Doran, Y. J. (PhD, 2016) Knowledge in Physics Through Mathematics, Image and Language, Dept of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Doherty, C. (PhD, 2007) The Production of Cultural Difference and Cultural Sameness in Online Internationalised Education, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

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Conana, H.C. (2015) Using Semantic Profiling to Characterize Pedagogical Practices and Student Learning: A case study in two introductory physics courses, Faculty of Science, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Chen, R. (PhD, 2010) Knowledge and knowers in online learning: Investigating the effects of online flexible learning on student sojourners, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia.

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Clarence, S. (PhD, 2014) Enabling Cumulative Learning Through Teaching: A Legitimation Code Theory analysis of pedagogic practice in law and political science, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Carroll, C. (PhD, 2017) Playing the field: An Australian case study of student popular musicians’ informal learning in senior secondary classroom music education, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Carvalho, L. (PhD, 2010) A Sociology of Informal Learning in/about Design, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Burnheim, C. (PhD, 2010) Field and Capital in Universities’ External Relations, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Blunden, J. (PhD, 2017) The Language with Displayed Art(efacts): Linguistic and sociological perspectives on meaning, accessibility and knowledge-building in museum exhibitions, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

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Blickem, C. (PhD, 2014). The Recontextualisation of Architecture and Accounting Education: Views from the academy and the professions, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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Bharath, P. (PhD, 2016) An Investigation of Progression in Historical Thinking in South African History Textbooks, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Bahman, Z. (PhD, 2012) Contrastive Genre Analysis and the Realisation of Power in Vertical Discourses in English and Persian, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Arbee, A. (PhD, 2012) Knowledge and Knowers in the Discipline of Marketing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Alexandre, M.F. (PhD, 2012) Critical Discourse Analysis of Interviews with Portuguese Scientists – Representation and Legitimation of Scientific Knowledge and its Specialities, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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Thomson, E. (Mphil, 2014) Battling with Words: A study of language, diversity and social inclusion in the Australian Department of Defence, University of New South Wales, Australia.

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Steyn, D. (Mphil, 2012) Conceptualizing Design Knowledge and its Recontextualization in the Studio Work Component of a Design Found Curriculum, School of Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Siebörger, I. (MA, 2012) Literacy, Orality and Recontextualization in the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa: An ethnographic study, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Morgan, M. (MA, 2011) A Corpus Based Investigation into the Relationship between Propositional Content and Metadiscourse in Student Essay Writing, University of Nottingham, Ningbo-China campus, China.

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Love, D. (MA, 2016) Any tool works if you are using the language: The role of knowledge in ICT integration in a Johannesburg private school, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

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Louw, G. (Mphil, 2010) Conceptualising Differentiated Forms of Knowledge: The Medical (MBChB) Curriculum of the University of Cape Town. School of Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Lambrinos, E. (Master, 2014) The Dancer’s Code: Physicality, philosophy and pedagogy, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Kilpert, L. (Mphil, 2010) Kindling Fires: Weighing the potential for cumulative learning in a private higher education Journalism curriculum, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Halliday, L. (MA, 2015) An Analysis of How Knowledge is Differentiated in Occupationally-Based Curriculum for a New Profession, School of Education, University of Cape Town.

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Enderstein, B. (Mphil, 2015) An Analysis of Curriculum Knowledge in an Introductory Actuarial Science Course, School of Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Behardien, I. (MPhil, 2014) ‘Who They Are’ or ‘What and How they Know’: An investigation by a fine art lecturer into the basis of her own legitimacy, School of Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Martin, J.R. (2009) Realisation, instantiation and individuation: Some thoughts on identity in youth justice conferencing. DELTA – Documentaá_o de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada 25: 549–583.

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Lamont, A. & Maton, K. (2008) Choosing music: Exploratory studies into the low uptake of music GCSE, British Journal of Music Education 25(3): 267–282.

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Dong, A. (2008) The Language of Design and its Politics, in The Language of Design: Theory and computation (pp. 141–168). London: Springer.

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Carvalho, L., Dong, A. & Maton, K. (2009) Legitimating design: A sociology of knowledge account of the field, Design Studies 30(5): 483–502.

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Martin, J., Maton, K. & Matruglio, E. (2010) Historical cosmologies: Epistemology and axiology in Australian secondary school history, Revista Signos, 43(74): 433–463.

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Hood, S. (2010) Appraising Research: Evaluation in academic writing. London: Palgrave.

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Chatteur, F., Carvalho, L. & Dong, A. (2010) Embedding pedagogical principles and theories into design patterns, in P. Goodyear & S. Retalis (eds) Technology-enhanced Learning: Design patterns and pattern languages (pp. 183–200), Rotterdam: Sense.

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Bennett, S. & Maton, K. (2010) Beyond the ‘digital natives’ debate: Towards a more nuanced understanding of students’ technology experiences, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26(5): 321–331.

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Vorster, J. (2011) Disciplinary shifts in higher education, in Ivinson, G., Davies, B. & Fitz, J. (eds.) Knowledge and Identity: Bernsteinian approaches and applications. London: Routledge.

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Vitale, P. (2012) L’enseignement de la traite et de l’esclavage a l’île de La Réunion: Un regard sociologique, in Saunier, E. (ed) Figures d’esclaves: Présences, paroles, représentations, The Hague:Presses Universitaires du Havre

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Poulet, C. (2011) Le maniement du raisonnement analogique dans l’apprentissage maçonnique: Transférabilité du sens et abstraction du langage. Signes, Discours et Sociétés, 7. [French language]

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Maton, K. (2016) Starting points: Resources and architectural glossary, in K. Maton, S. Hood & S. Shay (eds) Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory. London: Routledge.

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McNamara, M.S. & Fealy, G.M. (2011) Editorial – Legitimation Code Theory: A new lens through which to view our academic practice, Contemporary Nurse, 38(1-2).

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Howard, S.K. & Maton, K. (2011) Theorising knowledge practices: A missing piece of the educational technology puzzle, Research in Learning Technology, 19(3): 191–206.

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Chen, R., Maton, K. & Bennett, S. (2011) Absenting discipline: Constructivist approaches in online learning, in Christie, F. & Maton, K. (eds) Disciplinarity: Functional linguistic and sociological perspectives (pp.129–150).  London: Continuum.

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Case, J. M. (2011) Knowledge matters: Interrogating the curriculum debate in engineering using the sociology of knowledge, Journal of Education, 51, 73–92.

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Bennett, S. & Maton, K. (2011) Intellectual field or faith-based religion: Moving on from the idea of ‘digital natives’, in Thomas, M. (ed) Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young people, technology and the new literacies (pp. 169–185).  New York: Routledge.

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Tann, K. (2012) The language of identity discourse: Introducing a systemic functional framework for iconography, Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 8(3).

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Martin, J. R. (2012) Heart from darkness: Apocalypse Ron, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 65, Nov (Special issue on ‘Evaluative Uses of Language: The appraisal framework’).

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Lilliedahl, J. (2014). Musik i läroplanen & Läroplanen i musik [Music in curriculum & curriculum in music], in: Varkøy, Ø. & Söderman, J. (eds) Musik för alla: Filosofiska och didaktiska perspektiv på musik, bildning och samhälle (pp. 95–106), Lund: Studentlitteratur.

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Hood, S. (2012) Voice and stance as appraisal: Persuasing and positioning in research writing across intellectual fields, in K. Hyland & C. Sancho Guinda (eds) Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Whitcombe, S. W. (2013) Developing skills of problem-based learning: What about specialist knowledge, International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, 5(2): 41–56.

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O’Brien, R. & Elder, C. (2013) New ways for exploring who knows what in a native title case: A sociological approach, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2: 29–41.

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Meidell Sigsgaard, A.V. (2013). ”Hvad skal jeg skrive nu? ‐ Det må du selv vide…” – udvekslingsstrukturanalyse af samtaler mellem lærere og elever i undervisningen af dansk som andetsprog og historie. Nordand, 8(1). [Danish language]

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Matruglio, E., Maton, K. & Martin, J.R. (2013) Time travel: The role of temporality in enabling semantic waves in secondary school teaching, Linguistics and Education, 24(1): 38–49.

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Macnaught, L., Maton, K., Martin, J.R. & Matruglio, E. (2013) Jointly constructing semantic waves: Implications for teacher training, Linguistics and Education, 24(1): 50–63.

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Zhu Yongsheng (2014) Looking at LCT from the perspective of Bernstein’s knowledge structure theory: Inheritance and originality, Foreign Languages in China, 6(1): 10-13. [Chinese language]

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Silva de Joyce, H. & Feez, S. (2014) Exploring Literacies: Theory, research and practice, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

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Shay, S. (2014) Curriculum in higher education: Beyond false choices, in Gibbs, P. & Barnett, R. (eds) Thinking about Higher Education (pp. 141–157). London: Springer.

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Ravelli, L., Paltridge, B. & Starfield, S. (2014) Diversity in Creative and Performing Arts doctoral writing: a positive way forward, in Ravelli, L., Paltridge, B., Starfield, S.(eds) Doctoral Writing in the Creative and Performing Arts: The researcher/practitioner nexus. London: Libri.

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Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M. & Dwyer, P. (2014) Beyond redemption: Choice and consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing, in F. Yan & J. J. Webster (eds) Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and application (pp. 18–47), London: Equinox.

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Larsen, V. (2014) Changes in knowledge organization and the role of problem based learning, in Zieba, M. & K. Zieba (eds) Innovative approaches to business education – selected issues (pp. 87–102), Denmark: VIA University College Denmark.

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Georgiou, H., Maton, K. & Sharma, M. (2014) Recovering knowledge for science education research: Exploring the ‘Icarus effect’ in student work, Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education, 14(3): 252–268.

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