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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Legitimation Code Theory"”.
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Multilingual teacher-talk in Secondary school classrooms in Yola, North-East Nigeria: Exploring the interface of language and knowledge using legitimation code theory and terminology theory
… studies on multilingual talk, as illustrated by code switching in the classroom, have been repetitive and descriptive, and have for a while not been underpinned by substantially new or different questions (Lin, 2013:15). First, many of the studies in the literature have, for instance, concluded …
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A sociosemantic examination of secondary English teacher written feedback
… from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) in order to discover the various meanings that teachers make through their commenting practices. The findings of the study show that teacher comments focus on the content of the student writing, but also, …
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Knowledge in Accounting: Using a threshold concept lens to identify knowledge of financial instruments in an Accounting course, as experienced by students at a South African university
… and applies the dimension of Semantics and Legitimation Code Theory (Maton, 2014) to analyse whether semantic gravity and semantic density are stronger or weaker in the threshold concepts. The analysis points to five threshold concepts in the financial instruments module. It further aims to …
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Fine arts alumni reflections on curriculum and coursework in relation to global arts education: a social realist case study
… practices and trends. Archer's Morphogenetic theory and Maton's Legitimation Code Theory is used as theoretical frameworks to elaborate on the curriculum experiences, the coursework changes and progression of the Fine Art department over a timeline of the last decade (2012 – 2022). The Fine …
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Writer performance ranges on the NBT Academic Literacy Test: an analysis through a Semantics lens
Karl Maton argues that Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) not only allows knowledge practices to be seen and analysed; it also brings them into relation with the analysis of students themselves. In other words, it views educational experiences as an outcome of the dispositions brought by actors to a …
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Conceptualising differentiated forms of knowledge : the Medical (MBChB) curriculum of the University of Cape Town
… These data were then analysed using Maton's legitimation code theory, which identifies four legitimation codes based on the Epistemic Relation (ER) and the Social Relation (SR), namely a Knowledge Code, a Knower Code, a Relativist Code, and an Élite Code. These four categories were used to …
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Integrity, Researcher Identity, and Islands: An interpretive approach to exploring individual and disciplinary values through creative metaphors
… provided by the domain of specialisation in the Legitimation Code Theory toolkit. This iterative process resulted in a translation device developed specifically for this data. The data were analysed using the translation device which focuses on epistemic relations and social relations in the …
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The epistemic properties in a typical engineering science course and its relation to student success: a case study
… density) which is one of the dimensions of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) developed by Karl Maton. The analysis of the data uncovered two main issues. Firstly, there is a wide semantic range in the required knowledge and skills in order for the students to be successful in the course. …
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The nature of professional reasoning: An analysis of design in the engineering curriculum
… was done using the semantics dimension of Legitimation Code Theory, LCT (Semantics), which required an adaptation in order to fully describe the significance of contextual detail evident in the data. The findings showed that specialised knowledge and contextual detail interact far more …
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By which tools?: A critical comparative analysis of pedagogic discourse for the creative arts in formal and informal classrooms in a working class post-apartheid context
… to collect my data. The interview data were coded using Maton's development of Bernstein's code theory, namely Legitimation Code Theory (Specialisation) using epistemic and social relations, to allow me to capture the values and intentions of the pedagogues (the intended curriculum). To …
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An analysis of how knowledge is differentiated in a vocationally based curriculum for a new profession
… practice. The analysis calls upon Maton’s (2000) Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), specifically LCT Semantics, to explore meanings in curriculum texts in order to identify different types of knowledge. In using LCT Semantics, conceptual and practice-based knowledge is identified and graded according …
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Negotiating disciplinary boundaries in engineering problem-solving practice
… how novice problem solvers engage in epistemic code shifting in different industrial contexts. The aim in mapping problem-solving practices from an epistemological perspective is to make an empirical contribution to rethinking the theory/practice relationship in multidisciplinary engineering …
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Who they are' or 'What and how they know' : an investigation by a fine art lecturer into the basis of her own legitimacy
… one another, there is tension between the legitimation of the students' art practice according to "who they are" and the lecturer"s legitimation of the students" art practice according to "what and how they know". The developing artists experience major pulls and tensions between their own …
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Senior secondary English in New South Wales: Linguistic and epistemic perspectives
… mutually informing account of subject English in theory and practice. Drawing on three data sources – the Rationale of the Stage 6 English syllabus, five student examination responses, and classroom and interview data – the linguistic and epistemic requirements of subject English are explored, …
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An analysis of curriculum knowledge in an introductory actuarial science course
… reader. In addition, Bernstein's pedagogic codes analysed by means of his concepts classification and framing are employed to analyse (a) the nature and description of the profession and (b) the knowledge valued in the discipline and in the field of practice. Karl Maton's Legitimation Code …
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Trials and tribunals: consensus seeking in course design approval in Higher Education
… realism this study applies Bourdieu’s field theory to identify the field of HE as the object of study and curriculum development, as a form of academic development, as a subfield. Bernstein’s code theory and the pedagogic device are applied to develop an external language of description for …