We live in 'knowledge societies' and work in 'knowledge economies', but accounts of social
change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While knowledge should be central …

In searching for an adequate theory, the field of academic language and learning faces
challenges of relating concepts to data and overcoming knowledge-blindness. Most …

This thesis explores how playing jazz can be taught to children and young people in a field
that can hide its own basis of achievement. How to play jazz, how achievement is measured …

This thesis addresses the practical problem of developing effective writing pedagogy to
support doctoral candidates. It does this by focusing on the ways knowledge is organised in …

Teaching Chemistry is often compared to teaching a foreign language. The subject is
renowned for its complexity, requiring students to move between the macroscopic, the …

The history of subject English has been dominated by debates over its epistemology,
structure, and function (eg, Eagleton, 1985; Hunter, 1996; Macken-Horarik, 2011). With the …