Threshold Concepts in Practice / edited by Ray Land, Jan H. F. Meyer, Michael T. Flanagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Land, Ray, Editor.

Meyer, Jan, 1946- Editor.

T. Flanagan, Michael., Editor.

Series:

Educational Futures, Rethinking Theory and Practice , 2214-9872

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXXVI, 362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

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 learnerin 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. Cover image: Detail from ‘Eve offering the apple to Adam in the Garden of Eden and the serpent’ c.1520–25. Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553). Bridgeman Images. All rights reserved. .

Contents:

Foreword

Preface: Threshold Concepts in Practice

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Theoretical Directions

On the Threshold with Students

Toil and Trouble: Threshold Concepts as a Pedagogy of Uncertainty

Integrated Threshold Concept Knowledge

The Career of Threshold Concepts in a Large-Lecture History Course: An Examination of Uptake of Disciplinary Actions

A Threshold Concept Framework for Use Across Disciplines

Part 2: Negotiating Liminality

Affective Dimensions of Liminality

Ambivalence, Hybridity and Liminality: The Case of Military Education

Learning Experiences and the Liminality of Expertise

Stuck at the Threshold: Which Strategies Do Students Choose When Facing Liminality within Certain Disciplines at a Business School?

Part 3: Threshold Concepts and Interdisciplinarity

‘Threshold Guardians’: Threshold Concepts as Guardians of the Discipline.-Building Blocks: Threshold Concepts and Interdisciplinary Structures of Learning

Part 4: The Doctoral Journey

The Importance of Liminal Space for Doctoral Success: Exploring Methodological Threshold Concepts

Beyond Blockages to Ownership, Agency and Articulation: Liminal Spaces and Conceptual Threshold Crossing in Doctoral Learning

Part 5: Threshold Concepts in Professional Practice

Engineering

Modular Approach and Innovations in an Engineering Program Design

What to Do with a Threshold Concept: A Case Study

Make Links: Overcoming the Threshold and Entering the Portal of Understanding

Medicine

Becoming a Different Doctor: Identifying Threshold Concepts When Doctors in Training Spend Six Months with a Hospital Palliative Care Team

Nursing

Exploring Sources of Trouble in Research Learning for Undergraduate Nurses

Computer Science

How NOT to Identify Threshold Concepts

Discussion of Methods for Threshold Research and an Application in Computer Science

Legal Practice

Navigating Our Threshold Concepts to Enable Students to Overcome Theirs

Teaching

Threshold Concepts and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Knowledge, Belief and Practice in Language Teacher Education: Integration and Implementation of Threshold Concepts over a Teaching Career

Architecture

Transformative Learning in Architectural Education: Re-Thinking Architecture and the Education of Architecture

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789463005128

9463005129

OCLC:

953458824