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

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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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Dong, A., Maton, K. & Carvalho, L. (2015) The structuring of design knowledge, in Rodgers, P. & Yee, J. (eds) Routledge Companion to Design Research, London: Routledge.

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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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Martin, J. L. (2016) Musicality and musicianship: Specialization in jazz studies, in K. Maton, S. Hood and S. Shay (eds) Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory (pp. 193–213), London: Routledge.

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Poulet, C. (2016) Knowledge and knowers in tacit pedagogic contexts: The case of Freemasonry in France, in K. Maton, S. Hood & S. Shay (eds) Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory (pp. 214–230), London: Routledge.

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Myers, L. P. (2016) An analysis of how students construct knowledge in a course with a hierarchical knowledge structure, South African Journal of Accounting Research, 31 (3), 193–211.

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Cruice, M. (2016) Keeping the Lights On: A Play in Two Acts, in Perselli V. (eds) Education, Theory and Pedagogies of Change in a Global Landscape (pp. 196–212). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Christie, F. (2016) Secondary school English literary studies: Cultivating a knower code, in K. Maton, S. Hood and S. Shay (eds) Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory (pp. 158–175), London: Routledge.

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Puttick, S. (2017) Student teachers’ positionalities as knowers in school subject departments, British Educational Research Journal, 44(1): 25–42.

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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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Bratland, E. (2017) Looking back and forward: From the net generation to knowledge in Education, Cognitive Science – New Media – Education, 1: 47–63.

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Blackie, M. (2017) Semantic waves and pedagogic frailty, in I.M. Kinchin, N.E. Winstone (eds) Pedagogic Frailty and Resilience in the University (pp. 49–61), Rotterdam: Sense Publications.

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Mckenna, S., Quinn, L and & Vorster, J. (2018) Mapping the field of Higher Education Research using PhD examination reports, Higher Education Research & Development, 37(3): 579–592.

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Clarence, S. (2016) Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 53(6), 671–672.

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Ingold, Richard. (2016) Knowledge-building: Educational studies in legitimation code theory [Book Review]. English Australia Journal, 32(1): 121–124.

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Wolff, K. (2017) Throwing the baby out with the bathwater? The role of fundamentals in 21st century engineering education, Global Engineering Education Conference, Athens, Greece, April.

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Wolff, K. (2017) The manufacturing sector’s response to the lack of appropriate technical expertise in South Africa, Fourth biennial conference of the South African Society for Engineering Education, Cape Town, South Africa, June.

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Wolff, K. (2017) A language for the analysis of disciplinary boundary crossing: Insights from engineering problem-solving practice, Teaching in Higher Education, 23(1): 104–119.

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Winberg, C., Jacobs, C. & Wolff, K. (2017) Building knowledge and knowers in writing retreats: Towards developing the field of higher education teaching and learning, South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(2): 22–39.

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Vidal Lizama, M. (2017) Knowledge in your classroom: A model of analysis for specialisation codes in classroom discourse, Onomázein, March: 149–178.

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Jackson, F. (2017) Plotting pedagogy in a rural South African english classroom: A Legitimation Code Theory analysis, Per Linguam, 33(2):1–21.

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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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Clarence, S. & McKenna, S. (2017) Developing academic literacies through understanding the nature of disciplinary knowledge, London Review of Education, 15(1): 38–49.

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Anson, D. (2017) Examining the examiners: The state of senior secondary English examinations in Australia, Second International Legitimation Code Theory Conference, Sydney, Australia, July.

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Wolff, K. (2016) The innovative use of a problem-solving research model to support academic work, Teaching & Learning Conference, Central University of Technology, South Africa, June.

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Van Heerden, M., Clarence, S. & Bharuthram, S. (2016) What lies beneath: Exploring the deeper purposes of feedback on student writing through considering disciplinary knowledge and knowers, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(6): 967–977.

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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): 781–90.

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Vahed, A. (2016) Legitimating supervision from different academic territories: An auto-ethnographic account, in M. Fourie-Malherbe, R. Albertyn, C. Aitchison, E. Bitzer (eds), Postgraduate Supervision: future foci for the knowledge society (pp. 367–380), Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA

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Toll, M. (2016) Unpacking the black box: The climate sceptic blogosphere and the idealization of knowledge, The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia, November.

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McPherson, J., Tong, J.L., Fatt, S.J. & Liu, Y.T. (2016) Student perspectives on data provision and use: Starting to unpack disciplinary differences, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (pp. 158–67), New York: ACM. (Slides available)

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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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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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Arbaugh, J.B., Fornaciari, C.J., & Hwang, A. (2016) Identifying research topic development in business and management education research using Legitimation Code Theory, Journal of Management Education, 40(6): 654–691.

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Wolff, K. (2015) Insights into conceptual and contextual engineering problem-solving practices in the 21st century: Some implications for curriculum redesign, Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference of the South African Society for Engineering Education (pp. 189–198). Durban: SASEE.

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Jackson, F. (2015) Using Legitimation Code Theory to track pedagogic practice in a South African English home language poetry lesson, Journal of Education, 63: 29–54.

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Cheung, L. M. E. (2015) Legitimising the knower’s multiple voices in Applied Linguistics postgraduate written discourse, TESOL International Journal, 10(1): 62–76.

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Carvalho, L., Dong, A. & Maton, K. (2015) Foregrounding knowledge in e-learning design: An illustration in a museum setting, Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 31(3): 328–348.

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Tang, B. (2015) Disciplinary variation in the discourse functions of 1st person plural women in research articles, Foreign Language Education & Research, 4: 1–7. [Chinese language]

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Tang, B. (2015) On the complementarity between the theory of individuation and the principle of “Specialization”: ­A study based on the formation of coding orientations, Foreign Language Education, 36(6): 19–23. [Chinese language]

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Wolff, K. & Hoffman, F. (2014) Knowledge and knowers in engineering assessment, Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 2(1): 74–95.

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Vahed, A., Singh, S. & McKenna, S. (2014) Examining the quality of pedagogy through a tooth morphology board game, European Conference on Games Based Learning 2 (pp. 576–585). Reading: Academic Conferences International Limited.

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Toll, M. (2014) Discerning knowers: Exploring university students’ perceptions of knowledge claims, The Australian Sociological Association Conference Proceedings, University of South Australia, Adelaide, November.

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Thomson, E. (2014) Special Report: Towards inclusion: Language use in the Department of Defence, Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

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Thomson, E. (2014) Battling with Words: A study of language, diversity and social inclusion in the Australian Department of Defence, Canberra: Australian Government, Department of Defence.

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Steyn, D. (2014) Putting LCT to work, Curriculum Conversations, Cape Town, June.

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Quinn, L. & Vorster, J. (2014) Isn’t it time to start thinking about ‘developing’ academic developers in a more systematic way?, International Journal for Academic Development, 19(3): 255–258.

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Cao, F. & Hu, G. (2014) Interactive metadiscourse in research articles: A comparative study of paradigmatic and disciplinary influences, Journal of Pragmatics, 66: 15–31.

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Tang, B. (2014) An interpretation of the translator’s subjectivity from the perspective of Knowledge Structure Theory, Foreign Languages and Translation, 21(3): 8–14. [Chinese language]

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Whitcombe, S.W. (2013) Problem-based learning students’ perceptions of knowledge and professional identity: Occupational therapists as ‘knowers’, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(1): 37–42.

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Singh, V. & Gero, J.S. (2013) Developing a multi-agent model to study the social formation of design practice. In Chakrabarti, A. & Prakash, R.V. (Eds.), ICoRD’13 Global Product Development (pp. 631–641). Berlin: Springer.

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Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M., Cleirigh, C. & Dwyer, P. (2013) Users in uses of language: Embodied identity in Youth Justice Conferencing, Text and Talk, 33(4–5): 467–496.

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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) Faglighed og Problembaseret Læring: Vidensstrukturer i professionsuddannelser, Institut for Planlægning [Disciplinarity and Inter-disciplinarity in Problem Based Learning – Knowledge Structures in Professional Education], Aalborg Universitet.

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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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Meidell Sigsgaard, A-V. (2012) Who has the knowledge if not the primary knower? Using exchange structure analysis to cast light on particular pedagogic practices in teaching Danish as a Second Language and History, in Knox, J. (ed) To Boldly Proceed: Papers from the 39th International Systemic Functional Congress, Sydney: ISFC.

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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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Luckett, K. (2012) Disciplinarity in question: Comparing knowledge and knower codes in sociology, Research Papers in Education, 27(1): 19–40.

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Martin, J.L. (2012) The Jazz is strong in this one: Presentation and positioning of knowers in performance student texts. In Knox, J. (ed), To Boldly Proceed: Papers from the 39th International Systemic Functional Congress, Sydney: ISFC.

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Hood, S. (2010) Language and legitimation: Disciplinary differences in constructing space for new knowledge, The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies Pearling Appliable Linguistics Seminar Series, City University of Hong Kong, Oct.

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Hay, C. (2012) ‘What is to count as knowledge’: The evolving directing programme at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australasian Drama Studies 60 (April): 194–207.

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Winter, I. (2012) Knowledge and skill building in inquiry-based instruction, part of panel on ‘Authentic and explicit research culture: Students’ induction into research’, Partnerships: 7th ERGA Conference, University of Adelaide, September.

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