Threshold Concepts in the Moment / / edited by Jason P. Davies [and six others].

• Superior document: Educational Futures Series ; Volume 77
• TeilnehmendeR: Davies, Jason P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Educational futures ; Volume 77.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (551 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword --   Julie A. Timmermans -- Preface --   Jason P. Davies -- Acknowledgements -- A Tribute to Mick Flanagan -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- PART 1: Big Questions -- 1 Failure as a ‘Native Informant': A Potential Threshold Concept --   Julie A. Timmermans -- 2 Assessment of Student Learning in Threshold Concepts-Oriented Teaching and Learning: Existing Approaches and Future Research Perspectives --   Jan-Martin Geiger -- 3 Threshold Concepts: Where Next? Reflections on Educational Spaces, Times, and Identities --   David Riley -- 4 Intersecting the Identification Problem and Mixed Methods Designs in Threshold Concept Research --   David Reeping -- 5 Reframing Threshold Concepts as Open Questions --   Isaac Calduch -- 6 Secularism as a Universalising Threshold Concept --   Sharday Catherine Mosurinjohn and Jason P. Davies -- PART 2: Journeys through Liminality -- 7 Mediating Liminality: Artefacts as a Means of Supporting Threshold Transformations --   Julie Rattray and Matthew J. Ravenstahl -- 8 Thinking with Liminality: The Many Faces of Liminality --   Leif Martin Hokstad and Bjørn Otto Braaten -- 9 Spatial Response to Liminality: Empirical Examples from First Semester Architect Students' Design Work --   Bjørn Otto Braaten and Leif Martin Hokstad -- 10 Step into the Unknown: Liminality as a Safe Playing Space to Learn --   Laura Blackburn, Dora Regoczi, Larissa Kempenaar and Sivaramkumar Shanmugam -- 11 Liminality from the Inside: Dimensions of Students' Transformations in a Threshold Concepts-Infused Economics Programme in South Africa --   Jessica Schroenn Goebel and Suriamurthee Moonsamy Maistry -- 12 Embracing Liminality: Tools for Negotiating Identity Shift in New-to-SoTL Practitioners --   Diane E. Boyd -- 13 The Human Element: How Educators Can Prepare Learners for Future Workplace Uncertainties and Troublesome Knowledge --   Michelle D. Lazarus, Amany Gouda-Vossos, Jaai Parasnis, Elizabeth A. Davis, Swati Mujumdar, Angela Ziebell and Gabrielle Brand -- PART 3: Learning from & with Students -- 14 Developing a Threshold Concept Curriculum: Facilitating Student Understanding of the Value of Their Education Experience --   Matthew Christopher Atherton and Yvonne Nalani Meulemans -- 15 Threshold Connections: Engaging Trainee Teachers in Collaborative Curriculum Research to Explore Threshold Concepts within Secondary School Science Disciplines --   Matthew James Dunn and Jenny Anne Wynn -- 16 Analyzing Written and Oral Learner Discourse: Methods to Discern Truly Thorny Thresholds and to Enrich TCF Theory --   Virginia M. Tucker and Michelle Holschuh Simmons -- 17 The True Nature of Threshold Concepts in ELT Teacher Education --   Marwan Alyafaee -- 18 Mathematical Proving as a Threshold: Proving in Undergraduate Mathematics --   Bert Zwaneveld, Hans Sterk and Jacob Perrenet -- 19 Threshold Concepts in Higher Education Physics as Identified by Students of Environmental Sciences --   Paquita Perez, Bert Zwaneveld and Gé Nielissen -- PART 4: Students Getting the Hang of It -- 20 Out of the Comfort Zone: The Trouble with a MOOC -Virtual Exchange Blend at the Time of the COVID 19 Pandemic --   Marina Orsini-Jones and Kyria Rebeca Finardi -- 21 The Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Study of Adult Learners Transitioning into the Online Study Space --   Trish Powers -- 22 Applying Threshold Concepts and Addressing Bottlenecks in ePortfolio Implementation --   Brenda Refaei and Ruth Benander -- PART 5: Becoming a Professional -- 23 The Hidden Threshold: Tacit Learning in Interpreting --   Dai-Ling Chen -- 24 Trustworthiness as a Practical Threshold in Authentic Translation Project-Based Learning --   Amani Albuwardi -- 25 Thresholds and Liminal Spaces: Advancing Understanding of Becoming a Scholarly Teacher in Higher Education --   Linda Martindale and Stella Howden -- 26 Faculty Thresholds for Information Literacy Teaching: Discovering Threshold Concepts through a Professional Learning Course and Networks of Practice --   Sara D. Miller and Craig Gibson -- 27 A Phenomenographic Study of Interprofessionality: The Threshold Concept for Health Profession Students --   Natasha Hubbard Murdoch -- 28 Threshold Concepts in Graduate Apprenticeships --   Hebatallah Shoukry and Anne Tierney -- PART 6: The Last Word? -- 29 Twaddle, Conformity, and Variation: A Retrospective ‘Endnote' for Meyer and Land (2003) --   J. H. F. Meyer -- 30 Getting into Trouble: Twenty Years of Threshold Concepts --   Ray Land -- Index.