Threshold Concepts In The Moment

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004680661

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Threshold Concepts in the Moment by Anonim Pdf

In the twenty years since Ray Land and Erik Meyer published their first paper on Threshold Concepts, there has been a steady stream of papers mulling over their original suggestions that learning, far from proceeding in an orderly fashion, is instead a process of struggle – perhaps alienation and confusion – that puts students in a troublesome liminal ‘in-between’ state. As their understanding develops, liminality gives way to transformational insight whereby a whole field of study comes, often quite abruptly, into focus. There is a gain but often also a loss: in this new world, old certainties, assumptions and even aspects of our identity can be left by the wayside. Threshold Concepts in the Moment is the sixth collection in the series on the subject of Threshold Concepts, following the 8th Biennial Conference held in 2021, anchored at London’s UCL but running online across the world. Its contributors, who range from ‘old hands’ to new members of the community finding their feet, mull over the insights of the threshold concepts framework in higher education, scrutinise their own fields of study, explore the implications of liminality for pedagogy and becoming professional practitioners, and consider the broad implications for pedagogy of factoring in the troublesomeness of knowledge and learning.

Author : Ray Land,Jan H. F. Meyer,Michael T. Flanagan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463005128

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

"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 learner in 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.

Author : Jan Meyer,Ray Land
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134189946

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Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding by Jan Meyer,Ray Land Pdf

It has long been a matter of concern to teachers in higher education why certain students ‘get stuck’ at particular points in the curriculum whilst others grasp concepts with comparative ease. What accounts for this variation in student performance and, more importantly, how can teachers change their teaching and courses to help students overcome such barriers? This book examines the difficulties of student learning and offers advice on how to overcome them through course design, assessment practice and teaching methods. It also provides innovative case material from a wide range of institutions and disciplines, including the social sciences, the humanities, the sciences and economics.

Author : Linda Adler-Kassner,Elizabeth Wardle
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874219906

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Naming What We Know by Linda Adler-Kassner,Elizabeth Wardle Pdf

Naming What We Know examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. The first part of the book defines and describes thirty-seven threshold concepts of the discipline in entries written by some of the field’s most active researchers and teachers, all of whom participated in a collaborative wiki discussion guided by the editors. These entries are clear and accessible, written for an audience of writing scholars, students, and colleagues in other disciplines and policy makers outside the academy. Contributors describe the conceptual background of the field and the principles that run throughout practice, whether in research, teaching, assessment, or public work around writing. Chapters in the second part of the book describe the benefits and challenges of using threshold concepts in specific sites—first-year writing programs, WAC/WID programs, writing centers, writing majors—and for professional development to present this framework in action. Naming What We Know opens a dialogue about the concepts that writing scholars and teachers agree are critical and about why those concepts should and do matter to people outside the field.

Author : Julie A. Timmermans,Ray Land
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004419971

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Threshold Concepts on the Edge by Julie A. Timmermans,Ray Land Pdf

Threshold Concepts on the Edge explores new directions in threshold concept research and practice and is of relevance to teachers, learners, educational researchers and academic developers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460912078

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Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Timothy Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474246309

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Ecocriticism on the Edge by Timothy Clark Pdf

The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the “Anthropocene”, which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological systems reach a dangerous limit, also represents a threshold at which modes of interpretation that once seemed sufficient or progressive become, in this new counterintuitive context, inadequate or even latently destructive. The book includes analyses of literary works, including texts by Paule Marshall, Gary Snyder, Ben Okri, Henry Lawson, Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver.

Author : Fiona C. Chambers,David Aldous,Anna Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000281682

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Threshold Concepts in Physical Education by Fiona C. Chambers,David Aldous,Anna Bryant Pdf

This innovative and user-friendly book uses a design thinking approach to examine transformative learning and liminality in physical education. Covering theory and practice, it introduces the important idea of ‘threshold concepts’ for physical education, helping physical educators to introduce those concepts into curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. The book invites us to reflect on what is learned in, through and about physical education - to identify its core threshold concepts. Once identified, the book explains how the learning of threshold concepts can be planned using principles of pedagogical translation for all four learning domains (cognitive, psychomotor, affective and social). The book is arranged into three key sections which walk the reader through the underpinning concepts, use movement case studies to explore and generate threshold concepts in physical education using design thinking approach and, finally, provide a guiding Praxis Matrix for PE Threshold Concepts that can be used for physical educators across a range of school and physical activity learning contexts. Outlining fundamental theory and useful, practical teaching and coaching advice, this book is invaluable reading for all PE teacher educators, coach educators, and any advanced student, coach or teacher looking to enrich their knowledge and professional practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460911477

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Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines by Anonim Pdf

Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines brings together leading writers from various disciplines and national contexts in an important and readable volume for all those concerned with teaching and learning in higher education.

Author : Christie Launius,Holly Hassel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000554854

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Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies by Christie Launius,Holly Hassel Pdf

Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies: Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing is a textbook designed primarily for introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies courses, with the intent of providing both a skill- and concept-based foundation in the field. The third edition includes fully revised and expanded case studies and updated statistics; in addition, the content has been updated throughout to reflect significant news stories and cultural developments. The text is driven by a single key question: "What are the ways of thinking, seeing, and knowing that characterize Women’s and Gender Studies and are valued by its practitioners?" This book illustrates four of the most critical concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies—the social construction of gender, privilege and oppression, intersectionality, and feminist praxis—and grounds these concepts in multiple illustrations. Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies develops the key concepts and ways of thinking that students need to develop a deep understanding and to approach material like feminist scholars do, across disciplines.

Author : Pam Hook,Julie Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cognition in children
ISBN : 1927143969

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SOLO Taxonomy by Pam Hook,Julie Mills Pdf

Author : Maggi Savin-Baden,Gemma Tombs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004375123

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Threshold Concepts in Problem-based Learning by Maggi Savin-Baden,Gemma Tombs Pdf

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.

Author : James Trevelyan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315742281

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The Making of an Expert Engineer by James Trevelyan Pdf

This book sets out the principles of engineering practice, knowledge that has come to light through more than a decade of research by the author and his students studying engineers at work. Until now, this knowledge has been almost entirely unwritten, passed on invisibly from one generation of engineers to the next, what engineers refer to asexpe

Author : Jacob Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134742776

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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences by Jacob Cohen Pdf

Statistical Power Analysis is a nontechnical guide to power analysis in research planning that provides users of applied statistics with the tools they need for more effective analysis. The Second Edition includes: * a chapter covering power analysis in set correlation and multivariate methods; * a chapter considering effect size, psychometric reliability, and the efficacy of "qualifying" dependent variables and; * expanded power and sample size tables for multiple regression/correlation.

Author : James Nottingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735898902

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The Learning Pit by James Nottingham Pdf