Wits University wrote about the newly appointed Director of the Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) Hub, Prof Lee Rusznyak and her efforts in helping Wits students through the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. It focuses on her work with the Teacher Choices in Action initiative that has helped thousands of students in South Africa as an alternative to school practicals within the context of the global pandemic.

Legitimation Code theory is used to prepare thousands of South African teacher trainees for practice-based learning. Concepts from LCT empower trainees to analyse how teachers work with knowledge across different subject areas and year groups. They learn why practices may work in some classroom contexts but not in others. Since it was launched in August 2020, more than 40,000 trainees from 24 universities have completed the course as part of their teacher qualification requir

The curriculum of an Engineering Faculty in South Africa is being designed using a theory whose centre is the Faculty of Arts and Social Science. Dr Karin Wolff, an associate member of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building in FASS, has been appointed by Stadio Multiversity, a new private university in South Africa with campuses spread across the country, and charged with creating a new Engineering Faculty by 2021. Dr Wolff has already begun research-informed design of an inno

LCT is having real social impact in places such as South Africa. LCT, or Legitimation Code Theory, is a framework for understanding and changing knowledge practices in different areas of social life. It allows people to explore the ‘rules of the game’ in different fields and to then develop ways of teaching more people to succeed, or to change those rules. In South Africa, the rules that many feel need to change are those that continue the segregation of education. The moveme

The LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building has created a new YouTube channel and is extending its impact via video. Ranging from university lectures and keynote speeches to thoughts on the community of LCT scholars, the YouTube channel has become the guide for how to speak about Legitimation Code Theory. ​ Some of the most important videos are keynote speeches from LCT2, the Second International Legitimation Code Theory Conference held here at the University of Sydney in 2017. The