Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Theoretical Directions
1. The Labyrinth Within: Threshold Concepts, Archetype and Myth
Ray Land
2. At the Troublesome Edge of Recognising Threshold Concepts of Online Teaching: A Proposed Learning Threshold Identification Methodology
Maria Northcote, Kevin P. Gosselin, Peter Kilgour, Catherine McLoughlin, Chris Boddey and Kerrie Boddey
3. Caution! Theories at Play! Threshold Concepts and Decoding the Disciplines
Leah Shopkow and Joan Middendorf
4. Embedding Affect in the Threshold Concepts Framework
Julie A. Timmermans and Jan H. F. Meyer
Part 2: Liminal Space
5. Vygotsky, Threshold Concepts and Liminality: Using Vygotsky to Illuminate the Edge of Conceptual Understanding
Rachel Thompson and Michael Michell
6. Analysing Discourse in the Liminal Space: Talking Our Way through It
Susie Cowley-Haselden
7. Intensive Mode Teaching Explained Using Threshold Concepts
Sally A. Male, Stuart Crispin and Phil Hancock
8. Edging towards Understanding: Illuminating Student Experiences of Liminality in Introductory Sociology
Alison M. Thomas
9. Bringing the Apple and Holding up the Mirror: Liminal Space and Transformation in Visual Art Making
Matthew J. Ravenstahl and Julie Rattray
10. The Student Scholar Identity: Using Students' Reflective Work to Develop Student-Scholars, Address Liminality, and Design Curriculum
Yvonne Nalani Meulemans, Allison Carr and Torie Quiñonez
Part 3: Ontological Transformations
11. '... 'Cause Soon Now, It Will Be Real ...': Medical Simulation as Change Space in Interprofessional Training
Leif Martin Hokstad and Stine Gundrosen
12. Threshold Concepts and the Ontology of Professional Identity in Human Services Curriculum Design: A Case Example
Jackie Stokes, Vicki Bruce and Tanya Pawliuk
13. Threshold Concepts: Strategies for Assisting Doctoral Candidates to Learn to be Researchers
Margaret Kiley
Part 4: Curriculum
14. Threshold Concepts as Pathways through Ancient Religion: Curriculum as Initiation
Jason P. Davies
15. Threshold Concepts at the Sharp Edge: Entrepreneurship Curriculum Redesign
Lucy Hatt
16. Information Literacy and Liberal Education: From Google to Scholarly Sources
D. Bruce MacKay and Nicole C. Eva
17. Curriculum on the Edge: Designing for Liminality in Learning Activities: A Case Illustration in Search Expertise
Virginia M. Tucker
18. Threshold Concepts in the Applied Mathematics BSc Programme: A Structural Comparison with Threshold Concepts in the Computer Science BSc Programme
Bert Zwaneveld and Hans Sterk
Part 5: Crossing Disciplines
19. Exploring Threshold Concepts on the Edge: Learning, Teaching and Assessment Practices
Shannon Murray, Anne Marie Ryan and Brad Wuetherick
20. Investigating Threshold Concepts in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and the Influence of Disciplinary Background on the Research Process
Andrea S. Webb and Anne M. Tierney
21. Diversity, Hybridity and New Revelations in Conceptual Threshold Crossings in Cross-Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research Learning
Gina Wisker
Part 6: Writing across Thresholds
22. Naming What We Know (in Writing Studies): Engaging Troublesome Trends in Educational Policy and Practice
Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
23. Beginning to See the Connection between Everything: Developing Scholarly Identity in Writing Studies through Threshold Concepts
Erika Hawkes and Tekla Hawkins
24. Understanding Writing Transfer as a Threshold Concept across the Disciplines
Jessie L. Moore and Peter Felten
25. Edging towards the Threshold Concept of Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching through a MOOC Blend: Becoming Autonomous Learners and Teachers
Marina Orsini-Jones, Shooq Altamimi and Barbara Conde Gafaro
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