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Jacobs, C., & Van Schalkwyk, S. (2022). What knowledge matters in health professions education?, Teaching in Higher Education: 1–16.

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Annala, J. (2022). Disciplinary knowledge practices and powerful knowledge: a study on knowledge and curriculum structures in regions, Teaching in Higher Education: 1–19.

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Bertram, C. (2022). Reflecting on the nature of Curriculum Inquiry in South Africa 2010–2021. Curriculum Perspectives, 42(1): 71–76.

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Lee, Y. J., & Wan, D. (2022). Cognitive demands and opportunities for access in school curricula from mainland China: an integrated analysis based on specialisation codes, Educational Studies: 1–19.

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Bowdler, S., Moroney, T., Meedva, S., & Nielsen, W. (2022) Riding the wave to reduce the theoretical and practical divide, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, 27(6): 38.

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Lubbe, I. (PhD, 2021) Knowledge and knower structures and recontextualising logics in an accounting curricular framework, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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de Almeida, L. A., de Jesus Silva Jr, A., & dos Santos, B. F. (2021) Semantic Gravity and Contextualization in the Chemistry Questions of the Brazilian National High School Examination, IOSTE Letters, 1 (1): 53–59.

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Winberg, C. & Hollis-Turner, S. (2021) Practical subjects in the vocational curriculum: A critical review of the literature, Journal of Education, 85: 7–28

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Jawahar, K. (PhD, 2021) A Semantic Gravity perspective on South African school chemistry curriculum alignment, University of KwaZulu-Natal

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Dankenbring, C. A. (PhD, 2021) Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Tool for Examining Discourse Within Integrated STEM Education, Purdue University.

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Boughey, C. & McKenna, S. (2021) “Dominant discourses, policy challenges”, in Understanding Higher Education: Alternate Perspectives (pp. 23–52). South Africa: African Minds.

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Boughey, C. & McKenna, S. (2021) “Reconceptualising curriculum, structuring access”, in Understanding Higher Education: Alternate Perspectives (pp. 82–117). South Africa: African Minds.

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Cornell, A. & Padayachee, K. (2021) Revealing shifts from mastery of knowledge to problem solving in assessments of a tertiary physics programme, Journal of Education: Special Issue on Knowledge-Building and Knowers in Educational Practices, 83: 111–126.

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Braz de Carvalho, M. & Galian, C. V. A. (2021) The National Common Core Curriculum in Brazil: the power of knowledge linked to music, International Studies in Sociology of Education: 1–23. DOI: 10.1080/09620214.2021.1953396

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Dube, S. (2021) The Decoloniality of being Political Studies/Science: Legitimising a(nother) way of being, Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CriSTaL), 9 (1): 58–77.

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Tweed, B. (2021) The doing of curriculum mathematics: the case of an Indigenous Māori school in Aotearoa/New Zealand, British Journal of Sociology of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2021.1941764

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Carroll, C. (2021) A field divided: How Legitimation Code Theory reveals problems impacting the growth of school music education, in R. Wright, G. Johansen, P. A. Kanellopoulos & P. Schmidt (eds) The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education (pp. 196–208), London: Routledge.

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Ncube, K. (PhD, 2020) In Marketing, it’s either you have it or you don’t: A study of knowledge and knowers legitimated in the Marketing diploma curriculum in South Africa, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Lowe, D., Goldfinch, T., Kadi, A., Willey, K. & Wilkinson, T.(2021) Engineering graduates professional formation: the connection between activity types and professional competencies, European Journal of Engineering Education, DOI: 10.1080/03043797.2021.1901074

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McPhail, G. & McNeill, J. (2021) Some direction: towards a C21 secondary school curriculum, Music Education Research, DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2021.1904232

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Carver, M. (PhD, 2020) African music, knowledge, and curriculum: applying Bernsteinian and Legitimation Code Theory to South African music curricula, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witswatersrand

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Arbuckle, K. (2020) Between a Formalist Rock and a Contextually Hard Place: The Gaps and Tensions Challenging Visual Arts Curricula in South African Higher Education, Critical Arts, 34 (5): 139–152.

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Ellery, K. (2019) Congruence in knowledge and knower codes: The challenge of enabling learner autonomy in a science foundation course, Alternation, 26(2): 213–239.

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Conana, H., Marshall, D. & Solomons, D. (2019) Supporting Student Learning in Foundation Programmes and Beyond: Using Legitimation Code Theory as a Theoretical Lens to Think about Transition, Alternation, 26 (2): 183–212.

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Kirk, S. (2019) Knowledge-oriented perspectives on EAP: Some tools for thinking and practice, BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting (PIM), University of Northampton, June.

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Morreira, S. (2019) Disruption by Curriculum Design: Using Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like as a Tool for Participatory Parity in post-Apartheid Higher Education, Alternation, 26 (2): 161–182. DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2019/v26n2a8

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Kirk, S. (PhD, 2019) Enacting the Curriculum in English for Academic Purposes: A Legitimation Code Theory Analysis, Durham University.

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Carroll, C. (2019) ‘Illiterate’ musicians: an historic review of curriculum and practice for student popular musicians in Australian senior secondary classrooms, British Journal of Music Education: 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265051719000196

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Dorfling, C., Wolff, K. & Akdogan, G. (2019) Expanding the semantic range to enable meaningful real-world application in chemical engineering, South African Journal of Higher Education, 33 (1): 42‒58.

Dorfling, C., Wolff, K. & Akdogan, G. (2019) Expanding the semantic range to enable meaningful real-world application in chemical engineering, South African Journal of Higher Education, 33 (1): 42‒58.
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Mouton, M. (2019) A case for project based learning to enact semantic waves: towards cumulative knowledge building, Journal of Biological Education, DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2019.1585379

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Bovill, C. & Woolmer, C. (2018) How conceptualisations of curriculum in higher education influence student-staff co-creation in and of the curriculum, Higher Education: 1–16. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-018-0349-8

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Kavish, J. & Carver, P. (2018) A legitimation code theory perspective on work-integrated learning in South African school physical science curriculum policy, Refereed Proceedings of the 3rd International Research Symposium on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education, 23rd–27th of June, 2018, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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Wolff, K. (2018) Researching the engineering theory-practice divide in industrial problem solving, European Journal of Engineering Education, DOI: 10.1080/03043797.2018.1516738

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Monbec, L. (2018) Designing an EAP curriculum for transfer: A focus on knowledge, Journal of Academic Language & Learning, 12(2): 88–101.

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Ruszynak, L. (2018) What messages about teacher professionalism are transmitted through South African pre-service teacher education programmes?, South African Journal of Education, 38 (3), 1–11.

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Hay, C. (2016) Knowledge and Knowers, in Knowledge, Creativity and Failure. Creativity, Education and the Arts (pp. 17–46). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Clark, U. (2019) Language, Literacy and Pedagogy, in Developing Language and Literacy in English across the Secondary School Curriculum. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

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de Bie, G. (PhD, 2018) Disciplinary Knowledge Structures in a Human Biology Curriculum and the Possible Implications for Cumulative Learning: An analysis using Legitimation Code Theory, Rhodes University, South Africa.

de Bie, G. (PhD, 2018) Disciplinary Knowledge Structures in a Human Biology Curriculum and the Possible Implications for Cumulative Learning: An analysis using Legitimation Code Theory, Rhodes University, South Africa.
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Mtombeni, T. (PhD, 2018) A Social Realist Account of the Influence of Knowledge and Knower Structures in Curriculum Development Practices in the First Year Chemistry and Mathematics Curricula, Rhodes University, South Africa.

Mtombeni, T. (PhD) A Social Realist Account of the Influence of Knowledge and Knower Structures in Curriculum Development Practices in the First Year Chemistry and Mathematics Curricula, Rhodes University, South Africa.
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Ho, W.S.C. (PhD, 2017) Teaching academics’ perceptions of ‘Asia Literacy’ and its integration into undergraduate curricula: A case study in to three Australian universities, University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Booi, K. (PhD, 2018) Life Sciences Teacher Educators’ perspectives of the principle of knowledge integration in the Life Sciences teacher education curriculum, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

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Georgiou, H. & Crook, S. (2018) Watching the pendulum swing: Changes in the NSW physics curriculum and consequences for the discipline, Science Education News, 67(1): 20–24.

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Booi, K. & Khuzwayo, M. (2018) Sciences Teacher Education Curriculum Re-alignment: Science education lecturers’ perspectives of knowledge integration at South African universities, Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 7(1): 52-63.

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Carver, M. (2017) Knowledge transfer: Indigenous African Music in the South African music curriculum, African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music, 10(3): 119-141.

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Maton K. (2007) Knowledge-knower structures in intellectual and educational fields, in Christie, F. & Martin, J. (eds) Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Functional linguistic and sociological perspectives (pp. 87–108).  London: Continuum.

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Maton, K. (2006) On knowledge structures and knower structures, in Moore, R., Arnot, M., Beck, J. & Daniels, H. (eds) Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform: Applying the sociology of Basil Bernstein (pp. 44–59). London:Routledge.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Millar, V. (2015) Comparing discipline-based and interdisciplinary knowledge in university education, in P. Vitale & B. Exley (eds) Pedagogic Rights and Democratic Education (pp. 146–160), London: Routledge.

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Lilliedahl, J. (2015) The recontextualisation of knowledge: Towards a social realist approach to curriculum and didactics, Nordic Journal of Studies in Education Policy, 1 (27008): 40–47.

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Clegg, S. (2015) Different times: Temporality, curriculum and powerful knowledge, in P. Gibbs, O.-H. Ylijoki, C. Guzmán-Valenzuela & R. Barnett (eds) Universities in the Flux of Time, London: Routledge.

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Shay, S. & Steyn, D. (2016) Enabling knowledge progression in vocational curricula: Design as a case study, in K. Maton, S. Hood & S. Shay (eds) Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory (pp. 138–157), London: Routledge.

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Shay, S. & Peseta, T. (2016) A socially just curriculum reform agenda, Teaching in Higher Education, 21(4): 361–366.

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Zavale, N. (2017) Princípios epistémicos e sociais subjacentes à nova reforma curricular no ensino geral em Moçambique: Uma abordagem sociológica, Revista Cientifica da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, 1(2): 31–54. [Portuguese language]

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Ellery, K. (2017) Conceptualising knowledge for access in the sciences: Academic development from a social realist perspective, Higher Education, 74(5): 915–931.

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Winberg, C., Winberg, S., Jacobs, C., Garraway, J. & Engel-Hills, P. (2016) “I take engineering with me”: Epistemological transitions across engineering curriculum, Teaching in Higher Education, 21(4): 398–414.

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Lin, A.M.Y. (2016) Disconnects in bilingual education settings and research traditions, in A.M.Y. Lin (ed) Language across the curriculum & CLIL in English as an additional language (EAL) contexts (pp. 58–76), Singapore: Springer.

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Kelly-Laubscher, R.F & Luckett, K. (2016) Differences in curriculum structure between high school and university Biology: The implications for epistemological access, Journal of Biological Education, 50(4): 425–441.

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Clegg, S. (2016) The necessity and possibility of powerful ‘regional’ knowledge: Curriculum change and renewal, Teaching in Higher Education, 21(4): 457–470.

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Clarence, S. (2016) Knowledge and knowers in teaching and learning: An enhanced approach to curriculum alignment, Journal of Education, 66: 65–84.

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Vorster, J-A. & Quinn, L. (2015) Towards shaping the field: Theorising the knowledge in a formal course for academic developers, Higher Education Research & Development, 34(5): 1031–1044.

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Rusznyak, L. (2015) Knowledge selection in initial teacher education programmes and its implications for curricular coherence, Journal of Education, 60: 7–29.

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Hollis-Turner, S. (2016) Decoding Disciplines of a national business qualification in support of learning, Journal for New Generation Sciences, 14(3): 72–90.

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Shay, S. (2015) Curriculum reform in higher education: A contested space, Teaching in Higher Education, 20(4): 431–441.

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Winberg, C., Rip, A. & Winberg, C. (2014) The ethics of curriculum development: Engineers and technicians in a context of development, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Science, Technology and Engineering, Chicago: IEEE.

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Schudel, I. (2014) Exploring a knowledge-focused trajectory for researching environmental learning in the South African curriculum, Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 30: 96–117.

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Wolff, K. (2013) ‘Reservoirs’ and ‘repertoires’: Epistemological and discursive complexities in multidisciplinary engineering practice, Journal of Academic Writing, 3(1): 84–94.

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Vitale, P. (2013) Seeing beyond the local context: The understandings of slavery and the slave trade of students in Reunion Island schools, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 23(4): 338–357.

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Shay, S. (2013) Conceptualizing curriculum differentiation in higher education: A sociology of knowledge point of view, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 34(4): 563–82.

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Luckett, K. & Hunma, A. (2014) Making gazes explicit: facilitating epistemic access in the Humanities, Higher Education, 67(2): 183–198.

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Larsen, V. (2013) Transversal knowledge formations in Professional Bachelor Education employing Problem Based Learning (PBL), Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 1(1): 53–71.

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López-Bonilla, G. (2013) Prácticas disciplinares, Prácticas escolares: Qué son las disciplinas académicas y cómo se relacionan con la educación formal en las ciencias y en las humanidades, Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, 18(57): 383–412.

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Wolff, K. & Luckett, K. (2013) Integrating multidiscipinary engineering knowledge, Teaching in Higher Education, 18(1): 78–92.

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Shay, S. (2012) Contesting Purposes for Higher Education: A curriculum point of view, Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Conference, Newport, December.

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Vorster, J. & Quinn, L. (2012) Privileging knowledge, creating knowers: An analysis of a formal programme for university lecturers. In L. Quinn (Ed.), Re-imagining Academic Staff Development: Spaces for disruption (pp. 71–87). Stellenbosch: Sun Medi.

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Vorster, J. & Quinn, L. (2012) Theorizing the pedagogy of a formal programme for university lecturers. In L.Quinn (Ed.), Re-imagining Academic Staff Development: Spaces for disruption (pp. 51–69). Stellenbosch: Sun Media.

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Kilpert, L. & Shay, S. (2013) Kindling fires: Examining the potential for cumulative learning in a Journalism curriculum, Teaching in Higher Education, 18(1): 40–52.

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Humphrey, S. & Robinson, S. (2012) Resourcing teachers to tide the semantic wave to whole school literacy development, Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, University of Sydney, December.

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Ahern, A., O’Connor, T., McRuairc, G., McNamara & M. O’Donnell, D. (2012) Critical thinking in the university curriculum – the impact on engineering education, European Journal of Engineering Education, 37(2): 125–132.

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Shay, S. (2011) Curriculum formation: A case study from History, Studies in Higher Education, 36(3): 315–329.

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Kilpert, L. (2011) Lighting fires from fires: A description of the research entitled ‘Kindling fires’, The Journal of Independent Teaching and Learning, 6: 14–24.

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Macken-Horarik, M. (2011) Building a knowledge structure for English: Reflections on the challenges of coherence, cumulative learning, portability and face validity, The Australian Journal of Education, 55(3): 197–213.

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Firth, R. (2011) Making geography visible as an object of study in the secondary school curriculum, The Curriculum Journal, 22(3): 289–316.

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Luckett, K. (2010) Knowledge claims and code of legitimation: Implications for curriculum recontextualisation in South African higher education, Africanus, 40(1): 4-18.

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Hlengwa, A. (2010) Infusing service-learning in curricula: A theoretical exploration of infusion possibilities, Journal of Education, 48: 155–168.

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Stavrou, S. (2009) Negotiating curriculum change in the French university: The case of ‘regionalising’ social scientific knowledge, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 19(1): 19–36.

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Luckett, K. (2009) The relationship between knowledge structure and curriculum: A case study in sociology, Studies in Higher Education, 34(4): 441–453.

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