Social Practices in Higher Education addresses Bernard Mohan's concept of a social practice, an educational activity that can be considered as action in a frame of meaning, or a knowledge framework. The Knowledge Framework, grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics, is a heuristic that provides both a theoretical framework for researching the language of social practices and a springboard for organizing lessons that can help teachers bring explicit language development into content teaching. This volume brings together the latest research on using Mohan's SFL-based theory at institutions of higher learning.This book shows how a functional approach to language research can be a major tool for research in the experiential tradition of John Dewey who, as a pragmatist, regarded knowledge functionally as arising from an active adaptation of the human organism to its environment.