Threshold Concepts on the Edge: 73 (Educational Futures, 73) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004419969 ISBN 13: 9789004419964

Verlag: Brill, 2019

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Since the first literature about the Threshold Concepts Framework was published in 2003, a considerable body of educational research into this topic has grown internationally across a wide range of disciplines and professional fields. Successful negotiation of a threshold concept can be seen as crossing boundaries into new conceptual space, or as a portal opening up new and previously inaccessible ways of thinking about something. In this unfamiliar conceptual terrain, fresh insights and perceptions come into view, and access is gained to new discourses. This frequently entails encounters with ‘troublesome knowledge’, knowledge which provokes a liminal phase of transition in which new understandings must be integrated and, importantly, prior conceptions relinquished. There is often double trouble, in that letting go of a prevailing familiar view frequently involves a discomfiting change in the subjectivity of the learner. We become what we know. It is a space in which the learner might become ‘stuck’.
Threshold Concepts on the Edge, the fifth volume in a series on this subject, discusses the new directions of this research. Its six sections address issues that arise in relation to theoretical development, liminal space, ontological transformations, curriculum, interdisciplinarity and aspects of writing across learning thresholds.

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Julie A. Timmermans, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in the Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand. She publishes in the areas of higher education and academic development.
Ray Land, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Emeritus Fellow of University College at Durham University, UK. He is co-founder of the Threshold Concepts Framework and has published widely in educational research, academic development and quality enhancement.

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• Verlag: Brill
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004419969
• ISBN 13: 9789004419964
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 422
• Herausgeber: Timmermans Julie A., Land Ray
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