国际研讨会主旨发言介绍（1）

主旨发言专家（1）：

个人简介：

Karl Maton

Director of the LCT Centre

The University of Sydney

Professor Karl Maton is Director of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building at the University of Sydney in Australia and Visiting Professor at Rhodes University and the University of the Witwatersr and in South Africa. Professor Maton completed three degrees at the University of Cambridge and moved to Australia in 2005.·Professor Maton is the creator of Legitimation Code Theory(LCT), a framework For studying and shaping knowledge practices. LCT is now the basis of a multidisciplinary and international community of scholars and educators (see www.karlmaton.com). Professor Maton’s work includes: the first founding text of LCT, Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a realist sociology of education(2014) a collection showing how to use LCT in research Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory (2016) and forthcoming collections with J.R.Martin on how LCT has Influenced systemic functional linguistics (Academic Discourse)and using both approaches to explore science education（Study Science)·He is also an author of Sociology: Themes and Perspectives (Van Krieken et al, 2014, Pearson), the best-selling undergraduate sociology textbook in Australia. Professor Maton is the editor of the book series Legitimation Code Theory: Knowledge-building in research and practice, published by Routledge. Maton’s book Knowledge and Knowers has been translated into Chinese and will be published by Foreign Language Teaching &Research Press.