Threshold concepts and transformational learning / edited by Jan H.F. Meyer, Ray Land, Caroline Baillie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors' preface: threshold concepts and transformational learning / Ray Land, Jan H.F. Meyer and Caroline Baillie -- Changing our minds: the developmental potential of threshold concepts / Julie A. Timmermans -- Transcending disciplinary boundaries: a proposed theoretical foundation for threshold concepts / Leslie Schwartzman -- Threshold concepts: 'loaded' knowledge or critical education? / Aidan Ricketts -- Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (5): dynamics of assessment / Ray Land and Jan H.F. Meyer -- Visualizing expertise: revealing the nature of a threshold concept in the development of an authentic pedagogy for clinical education / Ian M. Kinchin, Lyndon B. Cabot and David B. Hay -- Contexts for threshold concepts (1): A conceptual structure for localizing candidates / Jerry Mead and Simon Gray -- Why is geologic time troublesome knowledge? / Kim A. Cheek -- A preliminary framework for isolating and teaching threshold concepts in philosophy / Monica R. Cowart -- Conceptual intersections: re-viewing academic numeracy in the tertiary education sector as a threshold concept / Rosanne Quinnell and Rachel Thompson -- Threshold concepts: challenging the way we think, teach and learn in biology / Pauline M. Ross ... [et al.] -- The testable hypothesis as a threshold concept for biology students / Charlotte E. Taylor and Jan H.F. Meyer -- Assessing progression in students' economic understanding: the role of threshold concepts / Peter Davies and Jean Mangan -- Threshold concepts and attrition in first-year economics / Martin P. Shanahan, Gigi Foster and Jan H.F. Meyer -- Compounded threshold concepts in electrical engineering / Michael T. Flanagan, Phillip Taylor and Jan H.F. Mayer -- Threshold concepts in computer science: an ongoing empirical investigation / Lynda Thomas ... [et al.] -- Identifying a potential threshold concept in nanoscience and technology: engaging theory in the service of practice / Eun-Jung Park and Greg Light -- Troublesome grammar knowledge and action-research-led assessment design: learning from liminality / Marina Orsini-Jones -- Engineering and social justice: negotiating the spectrum of liminality / Jens Kabo and Caroline Baillie -- What decoding the disciplines can offer threshold concepts / Leah Shopkow -- Identifying threshold concepts in the bank reconciliation section of an introductory accounting course: creating an ontological shift for students / Sidney Weil and Nicholas Mcguigan -- The threshold concept journey in design: from identification to application / Jane Osmond and Andrew Turner -- Modes of variation in pupils' apprehension of a threshold concept in economics / Ming Fai Pang and Jan H.F. Meyer -- Exploration of societal transitions in Estonia from the threshold concepts perspective of teaching and learning / Dagmar Kutsar and Anita Kärner -- Learning to be a researcher: the concepts and crossings / Margaret Kiley and Gina Wisker.

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