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'This monograph is best described as a guidebook-the journey is carefully signposted and there is much encouragement for the traveller-and I expect that its impact on higher education studies is going to be significant.' - Jennifer Case, Higher Education 'The book offers a different way of talking about knowledge and learning, and of reflecting on what makes a meaningful group learning session.' - Jill Thistlethwaite, Journal of Interprofessional Care 'Social inclusion and achievement for all learners can be enhanced as our knowledge about knowledge and knowledge building is enhanced. This book certainly helps us move towards realising this aim.' - Graham McPhail, Pacific - Asian Education 'Knowledge and Knowers is provocative, thoughtinducing and generative; offering a powerful, multi-faceted array of analytical tools to the project of cumulative knowledge building in the field of educational research.' - Fiona Jackson, Journal of Education 'This fascinating, wide-ranging, and internally coherent book will be of the greatest interest to sociologists and education policy scholars, and in particular to those appreciating the need to question how and why the state of the sociology of education and its impact can and should be enhanced.' - Ernst Buyl, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium, in Journal of Education Policy 'This tour-de-force will set the agenda for the future of the sociology of education. Maton's writing is always engaging and thought-provoking. The book offers nothing less than a new approach to the morphology of sociological knowledge itself - a must-read .' - Michael Grenfell, Professor of Education at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland 'A truly majestic contribution that advances fundamentally the ideas of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu. It is a formidable piece of work: imaginative, thought-provoking, intellectually out-reaching, and will surely constitute essential reading across the social sciences.' - John Evans, Professor of Sociology of Education and Physical Education, University of Loughborough, UK 'For decades sociology has been the missing link in discourse analyses of social context. Maton's inspirational volume consolidates a sociology of immense theoretical insight and undaunted analytical precision to make this blind-spot obsolete. Theory is every scholar's best friend; social theory of this order is a very best friend indeed.' - J.R. Martin, Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

'This fascinating, wide-ranging, and internally coherent book will be of the greatest interest to sociologists and education policy scholars, and in particular to those appreciating the need to question how and why the state of the sociology of education and its impact can and should be enhanced.' - Ernst Buyl, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium, in Journal of Education Policy 'This tour-de-force will set the agenda for the future of the sociology of education. Maton's writing is always engaging and thought-provoking. The book offers nothing less than a new approach to the morphology of sociological knowledge itself - a must-read .' - Michael Grenfell, Professor of Education at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland 'A truly majestic contribution that advances fundamentally the ideas of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu. It is a formidable piece of work: imaginative, thought-provoking, intellectually out-reaching, and will surely constitute essential reading across the social sciences.' - John Evans, Professor of Sociology of Education and Physical Education, University of Loughborough, UK 'For decades sociology has been the missing link in discourse analyses of social context. Maton's inspirational volume consolidates a sociology of immense theoretical insight and undaunted analytical precision to make this blind-spot obsolete. Theory is every scholar's best friend; social theory of this order is a very best friend indeed.' - J.R. Martin, Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

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Karl Maton is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Honorary Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa.

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