Theories
Browse published theoretical frameworks in the knowledge graph.
Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice frames learning as participation in shared practice, where newcomers and established members negotiate competence, meaning, and identity.
Educational Equity Theory
Educational Equity Theory is an editorial umbrella for examining unequal access, participation, recognition, resources, and outcomes in education.
Institutional Theory
Institutional Theory explains how organisational rules, norms, expectations, and legitimacy pressures shape practices and forms of similarity.
Life Course Theory
Life Course Theory explains how biographies unfold through time, relationships, institutions, and historically situated transitions.
Multiple Streams Framework
The Multiple Streams Framework explains agenda change through the temporary coupling of problem, policy, and political streams, often around policy windows.
Practice Theory (Bourdieu)
Bourdieu's practice theory explains patterned action through the relationship among habitus, forms of capital, and fields of struggle.
Social Capital Theory
Social Capital Theory examines resources that become available through social relationships, networks, obligations, trust, and access to information.
Street-Level Bureaucracy
Street-Level Bureaucracy examines how frontline public workers exercise discretion while implementing policy under resource, demand, and organisational constraints.
Structuration Theory
Structuration Theory explains social life as a recursive relationship in which people draw on and reproduce, modify, or contest structural rules and resources through practice.
Teacher Identity Theory
Teacher Identity Theory examines how teachers understand, narrate, and negotiate their professional selves in changing work contexts.
Teacher Life History Research
Teacher Life History Research uses biographical accounts to study how teachers' lives, work, memories, and social contexts shape professional meaning.
Teacher Professional Development Theory
Teacher Professional Development Theory provides a lens for studying teachers' continuing learning, changing practice, commitment, and career-related development.