- Title
- ‘Nothing so practical as good theory’: Legitimation Code Theory in higher education
- Creator
- Winberg, Christine, McKenna, Sioux, Wilmot, Kirsten
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445850
- Identifier
- vital:74437
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781003028215
- Identifier
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003028215-1/nothing-practical-good-theory-christine-winberg-sioux-mckenna-kirstin-wilmot
- Description
- Universities are grappling with multiple shifts that have made the processes of supporting student learning and enabling the professional development of academic staff ever more challenging. Common sense approaches abound but do little to address the complexities of the issues being faced in our institutions. This book brings together a rich collection of studies that uses a powerful common framework, Legitimation Code Theory, to attend to these concerns about higher education studies. The chapters provide specific real world examples of how this framework acts as conceptual lenses, analytical tools and as teaching resources to open conversations about how it is we come to know and what it is that is deemed worth knowing. In Part I ‘Student Learning across the Disciplinary Map’, the authors explore ways of understanding and supporting student achievement across different disciplinary contexts – from STEM disciplines and fields to the Arts and Humanities – and at different levels – from introductory higher education courses to doctoral-level studies. Part II, ‘Professional Learning in Higher Education’, takes an in-depth look at academic staff development in higher education. Each chapter in the book focuses on pertinent issues in higher education practice, from how to support an increasingly diverse student body, to how to support university teachers in contexts of rapid change and growth. This chapter provides an introduction to the conversation and offers an entry into the LCT tools used in this collection: Specialization, Semantics and Autonomy.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Winberg, C., McKenna, S. and Wilmot, K., 2020. ‘Nothing so practical as good theory’: Legitimation Code Theory in higher education. In Building knowledge in higher education (pp. 1-15). Routledge
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