Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
9789460912078
Series Statement:
Educational Futures 42
Content:
Preliminary Material /Jan H.F. Meyer , Ray Land and Caroline Baillie -- Changing Our Minds /Julie A. Timmermans -- Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries /Leslie Schwartzman -- Threshold Concepts: ‘Loaded’ Knowledge or Critical Education /Aidan Ricketts -- Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge (5) /Ray Land and Jan H.F. Meyer -- Visualizing Expertise /Ian M. Kinchin , Lyndon B. Cabot and David B. Hay -- Contexts for Threshold Concepts (I) /Jerry Mead and Simon Gray -- Why is Geologic Time Troublesome Knowledge? /Kim A. Cheek -- A Preliminary Framework for Isolating and Teaching Threshold Concepts in Philosophy /Monica R. Cowart -- Conceptual Intersections /Rosanne Quinnell and Rachel Thompson -- Threshold Concepts /Pauline M Ross , Charlotte E. Taylor , Chris Hughes , Michelle Kofod , Noel Whitaker , Louise Lutze-Mann and Vicky Tzioumis -- The Testable Hypothesis as a Threshold Concept for Biology Students /Charlotte E. Taylor and Jan H.F. Meyer -- Assessing Progression in Students’ Economic Understanding /Peter Davies and Jean Mangan -- Threshold Concepts and Attrition in First-Year Economics /Martin P. Shanahan , Gigi Foster and Jan. H.F. Meyer -- Compounded Thresholds in Electrical Engineering /Michael T. Flanagan , Philip Taylor and Jan H. F. Meyer -- Threshold Concepts in Computer Science /Lynda Thomas , Jonas Boustedt , Anna Eckerdal , Robert McCartney , Jan Erik Moström , Kate Sanders and Carol Zander -- Identifying a Potential Threshold Concept in Nanoscience and Technology /Eun-Jung Park and Greg Light -- Troublesome Grammar Knowledge and Action-Research-Led Assessment Design /Marina Orsini-Jones -- Engineering and Social Justice /Jens Kabo and Caroline Baillie -- What Decoding The Disciplines Can Offer Threshold Concepts /Leah Shopkow -- Identifying Threshold Concepts in the Bank Reconciliation Section of an Introductory Accounting Course /Sidney Weil and Nicholas McGuigan -- The Threshold Concept Journey in Design /Jane Osmond and Andrew Turner -- Modes of Variation in Pupils’ Apprehension of a Threshold Concept in Economics /Ming Fai Pang and Jan H.F. Meyer -- Exploration of Societal Transitions in Estonia from the Threshold Concepts Perspective of Teaching and Learning /Dagmar Kutsar and Anita Kärner -- Learning to be a Researcher /Margaret Kiley and Gina Wisker -- List of Contributors /Jan H.F. Meyer , Ray Land and Caroline Baillie -- Index /Jan H.F. Meyer , Ray Land and Caroline Baillie.
Content:
Over the last decade the notion of ‘threshold concepts’ has proved influential around the world as a powerful means of exploring and discussing the key points of transformation that students experience in their higher education courses and the ‘troublesome knowledge’ that these often present. Threshold concepts provoke in the learner a state of 'liminality' in which transformation takes place, requiring the integration of new understanding and the letting go of previous learning stances. Insights gained by learners as they cross thresholds can be exhilarating but might also be unsettling, requiring an uncomfortable shift in identity, or, paradoxically, a sense of loss. The liminal space can be a suspended state of partial understanding, or’stuck place', in which understanding approximates to a kind of 'mimicry'. Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning substantially increases the empirical evidence for threshold concepts across a large number of disciplinary contexts and from the higher education sectors of many countries. This new volume develops further theoretical perspectives and provides fresh pedagogical directions. It will be of interest to teachers, practitioners and managers in all disciplines as well as to educational researchers
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789460912061
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning Leiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2010
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789460912078
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