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1 online resource (xxxv, 361 pages) : illustrations, charts. |
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text file PDF |
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polychrome |
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Educational futures : rethinking theory and practice ; volume 68
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Educational futures ; volume 68.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Glynis Cousin -- Preface: Threshold concepts in practice -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Theoretical directions. On the threshold with students / Peter Felten -- Toil and trouble: threshold concepts as a pedagogy of uncertainty / Ray land -- Integrated threshold concept knowledge / Jan. H.F. Meyer and Julie A. Timmermans -- The career of threshold concepts in a large-lecture history course: an examination of uptake of disciplinary actions / Susannah McGowan -- A threshold concept framework for use across disciplines / Beth A. White, Taimi Olsen and David Schumann -- Part 2: Negotiating liminality. Affective dimensions of liminality / Julie Rattray -- Ambivalence, hybridity and liminality: the case of military education / Ahmad Thamrini F. Syed Mohamed, Ray Land and Julie Rattray -- Learning experiences and the liminality of expertise / Virginia M. Tucker -- Stuck at the threshold: which strategies do students choose when facing liminality within certain disciplines at a business school? / Terje Berg, Morten Erichsen and Leif M. Hokstad -- Part 3: Threshold concepts and interdisciplinarity. 'Threshold guardians': threshold concepts as guardians of the discipline / Jason Davies -- Building blocks: Threshold concepts and interdisciplinary structures of learning / Aminul Huq, Marcia D. Nichols and Bijaya Aryal -- Part 4: The doctoral journey. The importance of liminal space for doctoral success: exploring methodological threshold concepts / Michelle Salmona, Dan Kaczynski and Leigh N. Wood -- Beyond blockages to ownership, agency and articulation: liminal spaces and conceptual threshold crossing in doctoral learning / Gina Wisker -- Part 5: Threshold concepts in professional practice. Engineering. Modular approach and innovations in an engineering program design / Anthony Parker and Daniel McGill -- What to do with a threshold concept: a case study / Jan H.F. Meyer, David B. Knight, Tom E. Baldock, David P. Callaghan, Julie McCredden and Liza O'Moore -- Make links: overcoming the threshold and the portal of understanding / Anna-Karin Carstensen and Jonte Bernhard -- Medicine. Becoming a different doctor: identifying threshold concepts when doctors in training spend six months with a hospital palliative care team / Andy Wearn, Anne O'Callaghan and Mark Barrow -- Nursing. Exploring sources of trouble in research learning for undergraduate nurses / Linda Martindale, Ray Land, Julie Rattray and Lorraine Anderson -- Computer science. How NOT to identify threshold concepts / Dermot Shinners-Kennedy -- Discussion of methods for threshold research and an application in computer science / Bert Zwaneveld, Jacob Perrenet and Roel Bloo -- Legal practice. Navigating our threshold concepts to enable students to overcome theirs / Marianne Dickie and Ilona van Galen -- Teaching. Threshold concepts and the scholarship of teaching and learning / Andrea S. Webb -- Knowledge, belief and practice in language teacher education: integration and implementation of threshold concepts over a teaching career / David Moroney, Eugene McKendry and Ann Devitt -- Architecture. Transformative learning in architectural education: re-thinking architecture and the education of architecture / Leif M. Hokstad, Gro Rødne, Bjørn Otto Braaten, Steffen Wellinger and Fredrik Shetelig. |
| Summary |
"Threshold Concepts in Practice brings together fifty researchers from sixteen countries and a wide variety of disciplines to analyse their teaching practice, and the learning experiences of their students, through the lens of the Threshold Concepts Framework. In any discipline, there are certain concepts -- the 'jewels in the curriculum' -- whose acquisition is akin to passing through a portal. Learners enter new conceptual (and often affective) territory. Previously inaccessible ways of thinking or practising come into view, without which they cannot progress, and which offer a transformed internal view of subject landscape, or even world view. These conceptual gateways are integrative, exposing the previously hidden interrelatedness of ideas, and are irreversible. However they frequently present troublesome knowledge and are often points at which students become stuck. Difficulty in understanding may leave the learner in a 'liminal' state of transition, a 'betwixt and between' space of knowing and not knowing, where understanding can approximate to a form of mimicry. Learners navigating such spaces report a sense of uncertainty, ambiguity, paradox, anxiety, even chaos. The liminal space may equally be one of awe and wonderment. Thresholds research identifies these spaces as key transformational points, crucial to the learner's development but where they can oscillate and remain for considerable periods. These spaces require not only conceptual but ontological and discursive shifts. This volume, the fourth in a tetralogy on Threshold Concepts, discusses student experiences, and the curriculum interventions of their teachers, in a range of disciplines and professional practices including medicine, law, engineering, architecture and military education."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Concept learning.
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Concept learning. |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Learning, Psychology of.
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Learning, Psychology of. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Land, Ray, editor.
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Meyer, Jan, 1946- editor.
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Flanagan, Michael T., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Threshold concepts in practice. Rotterdam, The Netherlands : Sense Publishers, [2016] 9463005102 (OCoLC)947020684 |
| ISBN |
9789463005128 (electronic book) |
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9463005129 (electronic book) |
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9463005102 |
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9789463005104 |
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9789463005111 |
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9463005110 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-94-6300-512-8 |
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