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Wilmot, K., Iqani, M. & Madondo, N. (2023) Science and language, knowledge and power. South African Journal of Science, 119(11/12): 16909. DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2023/16909

Wilmot, K., Iqani, M. & Madondo, N. (2023) Science and language, knowledge and power. South African Journal of Science, 119(11/12): 16909. DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2023/16909
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Georgiou, H. (2022). Preservice Teachers’ Views of the “Social Embeddedness” Tenet of the Nature of Science: A New Method of Analysis, Journal of Science Teacher Education, DOI: 10.1080/1046560X.2022.2043575

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Pinto, B. C. N., Silva, R. P., Bertoldo, T. A. T., & Wartha, E. J. (2022). Legitimação e circulação do discurso em aulas de ciências: um modelo multidimensional de análise, Pesquisa e Ensino em Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, 6: e1811.

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Essop, M. F. & Adendorff, H. (2022). Using Autonomy to understand active teaching methods in undergraduate science classes, in Blackie, M. A. L., Maton, K. Adendorff, H. & Mouton, M. (eds) Enhancing Science Education. Routledge (pp. 169–190).

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Mouton, M., Rootman-le Grange, I. & Uys, B. (2022) Advancing students’ scientific discourse through collaborative pedagogy, in Blackie, M. A. L., Maton, K. Adendorff, H. & Mouton, M. (eds) Enhancing Science Education. Routledge (pp. 148–168).

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Blackie, M. A. L. (2022). Navigating from science into education research, in Blackie, M. A. L., Maton, K. Adendorff, H. & Mouton, M. (eds) Enhancing Science Education. Routledge (pp. 227–240).

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Blackie, M. A. L., Adendorff, H. & Mouton, M. (2022) Enacting Legitimation Code Theory in science education, in Blackie, M. A. L., Maton, K. Adendorff, H. & Mouton, M. (eds) Enhancing Science Education. Routledge (pp. 1–18).

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Conana, H., Solomons, D. & Marshall, D. (2022) Supporting the transition from first to second-year Mathematics using Legitimation Code Theory, in Blackie, M. A. L., Maton, K. Adendorff, H. & Mouton, M. (eds) Enhancing Science Education. Routledge (pp. 206–223).

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Pinto, B. C. N., & Wartha, E. J. (2021). DIMENSÃO SEMÂNTICA NA SALA DE AULA DE CIÊNCIAS: RODAS DE CONVERSA COMO PROMOTOR DE ONDAS SEMÂNTICAS, Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 26(3): 220–236.

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Tang, K-S., Tan, A-L. & Mortimer, E. F. (2021) The Multi-timescale, Multi-modal and Multi-perspectival Aspects of Classroom Discourse Analysis in Science Education, Research in Science Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-020-09983-1

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Maton, K. (2021) Animating science: Activating the affordances of multimedia in teaching, in Maton, K., Martin, J.R. and Doran, Y. J. (eds) Teaching Science: Knowledge, language, pedagogy. Routledge.

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Fagan, D. (PhD, 2020) Using ICTs as a Pedagogical Resource to Facilitate Epistemological Access in Science with Teacher Education Students, PhD thesis, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Maton, K. (2021) Targeting science: Successfully integrating mathematics into science teaching, in Maton, K., Martin, J. R. and Doran, Y. J. (eds) Teaching Science: Knowledge, language, pedagogy. Routledge.

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Maton, K. & Doran, Y. J. (i2021) Constellating science: How relations among ideas help build knowledge, in Maton, K., Martin, J. R. and Doran, Y. J. (eds) Teaching Science: Knowledge, language, pedagogy. Routledge.

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Lo, Y. L., Lin, A. M. Y. & Liu, Y. (2020) Exploring content and language co-construction in CLIL with semantic waves, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2020.1810203

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Harman, H., Buxton, C. Cardozo-Gaibisso, L. Jiang, L. & Bui, K. (2020) Culturally sustaining systemic functional linguistics praxis in science classrooms, Language and Education. DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2020.1782425

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Lin, Y-J. & Wan, D. (2020) How complex or abstract are science learning outcomes? A novel coding scheme based on semantic density and gravity, Research in Science Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-020-09955-5

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Svensson, B. (2020) The construction of semantic waves of knowledge-building: High school students’ natural science writing, HERMES – Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 59 (1): 139–152.

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Georgiou, H. (2020) Characterising Communication of Scientific Concepts in Student-Generated Digital Products, Education Sciences, 10(1): 18. DOI: 10.3390/educsci10010018

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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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Kamai, R. W. (PhD, 2019) A multi-theoretical analysis of the dynamics and effects of terminology in Nigerian and South African high school textbooks on life sciences, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Buxton, C., Harman, R., Cardozo-Gaibisso, L., Jiang, L., Bui, K. & Allexsaht-Snider, M. (2019) Understanding Science and Language Connections: New Approaches to Assessment with Bilingual Learners, Research in Science Education, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-019-9846-8

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Byers, S. (PhD, 2018) An LCT Examination of Comprehension and Pedagogy in Middle Years English and Science, University of Wollongong, Australia.

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Nygard Larsson, P. (2018) “We’re talking about mobility:” Discourse strategies for promoting disciplinary knowledge and language in educational contexts, Linguistics and Education, 48: 61–75.

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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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Kamai, R. (PhD, 2018) A multi-theoretical analysis of the dynamics and effects of variation in the use of terms in school science textbooks in Nigeria and South Africa, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Vahed, A., McKenna, S. & Singh, S. (2016) Linking the ‘know-that’ and ‘know-how’ knowledge through games: a quest to evolve the future for science and engineering education, Higher Education, 71(6): 781–790.

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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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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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Karlsson, A. Larsson, P. & Jakobsson, A. (2018) Multilingual students’ use of translanguaging in science classrooms, International Journal of Science Education, DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2018.1477261

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Kinchin, I. (2018) Implications for student feedback: Changing the game, in Kinchin, I. (ed) Visualising powerful knowledge to develop the expert student (pp. 103–115). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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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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Ellery, K. (2018) Legitimation of knowers for access in Science, Journal of Education, 71: 24–38. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i71a02

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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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Ellery, K. (PhD, 2016) Epistemological Access in a Science Foundation Course: A social realist perspective, Rhodes University, 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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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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Sturgiss, J. (2016) Science, Writing and New Dimensions, Journal of Professional Learning, Semester 2: 1-7.

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Ellery, K. (2017) A code theory perspective on science access: Clashes and conflicts, South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(3): 82–98.

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Ellery, K. & Boughey, C. (2016) Promoting epistemic and learning-context access in a science foundation course: Supporting student learning. Higher Education Conference (HEC2016), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July.

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Córdova Jiménez, J.P., Melo, G., Bacigalupo, F. & Manghi, D. (2016) Olas de significado en la interacción profesor-alumno: análisis de dos clases de Ciencias Naturales de un 6to de primaria [Semantic waves in teacher-student interaction: analysis of two Natural Science lessons in 6th grade], Ciência & Educação, 22(2): 335–350.

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Maton, K. (2013) Making semantic waves: A key to cumulative knowledge-building, Linguistics and Education, 24(1): 8–22.

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Ellery, K. (2017) A code theory perspective on science access: Clashes and conflicts, South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(3): 82–98.

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