Full Description
Threshold Concepts in Problem-based Learning provides a critical discussion and guidance for educational researchers, teachers, innovators and policy makers wanting to explore the interrelationship of PBL and threshold concepts. Beginning with an introduction to both areas and offering an overview of the current issues, this volume delivers 11 innovative, research-based chapters from around the world. It outlines the major threshold concepts faced by those disciplines that have adopted PBL, and then examines the impact of threshold concepts on student learning. What is unique about this text is the way it examines PBL as a pedagogy in which students get stuck in the learning process and the thresholds they encounter as they learn to adapt.
Contents
Foreword
Ray Land
Introduction
Maggi Savin-Baden and Gemma Tombs
Part 1: Threshold Concepts in PBL Curricula
1. Threshold Concepts and Problem-based Learning
Maggi Savin-Baden and Gemma Tombs
2. The Liminal Tunnel
Angelica Fredholm and Charlotte Silén
3. Critical Thinking Threshold Concepts in PBL
Wdai-Ling Chen and Julie Rattray
4. PBL as Learning Vehicle, Threshold Concept or Capability? Audio-Diary Research in Medical Education
Hilary Neve, Kerry Gilbert and Helen Lloyd
Part 2: Threshold Concepts in the Professions
5. Defined and Enacted Threshold Concepts in Engineering Education: Applied Competencies within Multi-Level Systems
Andrea Gomoll, Krista Glazewski, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Thomas Brush and Jiyoon Jung
6.
Threshold Concepts in Chemical Engineering Design
Ashleigh Fletcher and Stuart Boon
7. Helping University Teachers Embrace Threshold Concepts in Scholarly Teaching Using a Problem-based Learning Approach
Sarah L. Bunnell and Daniel J. Bernstein
8. PBL Revisited - Expectations and Experiences: A Threshold Concept Perspective on the Facilitator Role in PBL
Leif M. Hokstad and Børge Lillebo
Part 3: Exploring and Conceptualizing Threshold Concepts in PBL
9. Empathy and Problem-based Learning
Jayne Lewis
10. Threshold Concepts in Leadership Development
Ruth Pearce
11. Troublesome and Transformative: Exploring Conceptual Threshold Crossings in Doctoral Projects Engaged with Real World Problems in Professional Practice
Gina Wisker
Conclusion
Maggi Savin-Baden and Gemma Tombs
About the Contributors
