Karl Maton

Karl Maton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Visiting Professor at Rhodes University (South Africa), and Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa).

Karl Maton is the creator of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), which emerged as a framework for the study of knowledge and education and is now being used to analyse a growing range of social and cultural practices across increasingly different institutional and national contexts, both within and beyond education.

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Karl Maton's book 'Knowledge and Knowers' was published in 2014 and its sequel, 'Knowledge-building', showing how to enact LCT in research and practice, was published in 2016. His new book 'Sociology of Possibility' will be available in 2024.

Karl is Editor of the Routledge series “Legitimation Code Theory”.