MovementLegitimation Code Theory: MovementLCT is growing. Unlike many approaches, its take-up is not dependent on direct transmission from supervisor to student - many who have come to LCT have done so through reading publications or hearing presentations. Alongside many individuals using LCT, there are currently three main clusters of scholars engaged in LCT-influenced research: SEMINARS AND DISCUSSIONS LCT-SFL Roundtable, Sydney University, Australia, May 2009 onwards The Roundtable brings 'Legitimators' and SFLers together on a regular basis. It is part reading group, part workshop, part discussion group, part presentation forum. The presentations and discussions are recorded and these will be posted to the LCT Listserv (see below) so others can join in. Anyone can come along or post queries / issues they'd have liked to be discussed. For more information contact Sue Hood (Sue.Hood@uts.edu.au), Erika Matruglio (e.matruglio@usyd.edu.au) or Karl Maton (kmaton@usyd.edu.au). Meetings: Friday, 1st May Friday, 22nd May Friday 5th June Friday 19th June Friday 21st August Friday 11th September Friday 25th September Friday 23rd October Friday 6th November The Roundtable will recommence on Friday, January 15th 2010, at 10am in Room 318, School of Public Health, Edward Ford Building A27, Physics Road, Sydney University University of Sydney, monthly: Engaging Realism seminar series Karl Maton organises the Engaging Realism seminars at the University of Sydney. Held monthly, Engaging Realism is a series of seminars and discussions of readings organised by the AACR. They are open to anyone interested in coming and engaging with realist ideas. Neither speakers nor other participants need be 'critical realists' - the aim is to open up and encourage debate and discussion. Contact Karl Maton kmaton@usyd.edu.au for more details. CONFERENCES University of Cape Town, June-July 2009: Knowledge and Curriculum in Higher Education A two-day conference followed by a two-day Legitimation Code Theory Workshop, organized by a team led by Assoc Prof Suellen Shay, CHED, University of Cape Town (Suellen.Shay@uct.ac.za). Brisbane, 2010: The International Basil Bernstein Symposium. Traditionally an intense and highly productive conference, the Bernstein Symposium is not divided into parallel streams, enabling a high level of interaction, discussion and debate. It is held every two years, and book collections have drawn from selected papers from each conference: 2000 Lisbon, Portugal; 2002 Cape Town, South Africa; 2004 Cambridge, UK; 2006 Rutgers, USA; 2008 Cardiff, UK.
Moore, R., Arnot, M., Beck, J. & Daniels, H. (Eds.) (2006) Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform: Applying the sociology of Basil Bernstein. London, Routledge, 44-59. Muller, J., Davies, B., & Morais, A. (Eds.) (2004) Reading Bernstein, Researching Bernstein. London, Routledge, 218-231. Morais, A., Neves, I., Davies, B. & Daniels, H. (Eds.) (2001) Towards a Sociology of Pedagogy: The contribution of Basil Bernstein to research. New York, Peter Lang, 153-182. The next conference will be held in Brisbane, Australia, at the Ship Inn at Griffith University's South Bank Campus, from 30 June to 3rd July 2010. The symposium aims to encourage informed dialogue between scholars from around the world undertaking work that engages with Bernstein's sociology of education in the broadest sense. University of Sydney, Dec 2008: Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language: An international symposium A three-day interdisciplinary conference, bringing together Bernsteinian sociology, LCT and systemic functional linguistics. For more details visit: http://www.asfla.org.au/dkl08/ The symposium built on and extended the highly successful Reclaiming Knowledge symposium held at the University of Sydney in December 2004 that gave rise to Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy (Christie & Martin, eds 2007, Continuum Press). Fran Christie and Karl Maton are co-editing a book inspired by the Disciplinarity conference for Continuum Press. University of Cambridge, July 2008: Social Realism in Education International Colloquium. An event organised by Karl Maton and Rob Moore, bringing together younger scholars from the UK, South Africa, Australia and beyond, and from social realist approaches and critical realism. EMAIL DISCUSSION GROUPS For anyone interested in LCT and related theories, there are several email listservs: • Legitimation Code Theory: • Basil Bernstein: • Pierre Bourdieu: • Australasian Association for Critical Realism: • Critical realism: • Systemic functional linguistics: |