Threshold Concepts in Practice (Educational Futures: Rethinking Theory and Practice, 68) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9463005110 ISBN 13: 9789463005111

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Professor Ray Land is Professor of Higher Education Development and Director of the Centre for Higher Education Development at Coventry University. He previously taught at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to educational development, his curent research interests include theshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, and theoretical aspects of education in cyberspace.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9463005110
• ISBN 13: 9789463005111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Land Ray, Meyer Jan H. F., Flanagan Michael T.