Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning by Jan Hf Meyer
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. Threshold concepts provoke in the learner a state of 'liminality' in which transformation takes place, requiring the integration of new understanding and the letting go of previous learning stances. Insights gained by learners as they cross thresholds can be exhilarating but might also be unsettling, requiring an uncomfortable shift in identity, or, paradoxically, a sense of loss. The liminal space can be a suspended state of partial understanding, or'stuck place', in which understanding approximates to a kind of 'mimicry'. Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning substantially increases the empirical evidence for threshold concepts across a large number of disciplinary contexts and from the higher education sectors of many countries. This new volume develops further theoretical perspectives and provides fresh pedagogical directions. It will be of interest to teachers, practitioners and managers in all disciplines as well as to educational researchers.-
The Matrix Ate My Baby
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Educating for Meaningful Lives
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Navigating Through the Storm
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The Richness of Art Education
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Prospects of Higher Education
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Shaping the Future
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Neoliberalism, Higher Education and Research
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The Stranger Within
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Beyond the Modern-Postmodern Struggle in Education
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Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education
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Designing Globally Networked Learning Environments
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Alternative Educational Futures
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Teaching, Responsibility, and the Corruption of Youth
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Threshold Concepts on the Edge
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A Normative Foucauldian
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Understanding Art Education through the Lens of Threshold Concepts
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Performativity, Politics and Education
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Identity Work in the Contemporary University
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Obstinate Education
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Threshold Concepts in the Moment
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Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines
Jan De Meyer, Ph.D. (1992) in Sinology, University of Ghent (Belgium), is Lecturer at Leiden University. He has co-edited Linked Faiths. Essays on Chinese Religions & Traditional Culture in Honour of Kristofer Schipper (Brill, 2000).
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| ISBN 13 | 9789460912054 |
| ISBN 10 | 9460912052 |
| Title | Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning |
| Author | Jan Hf Meyer |
| Series | Educational Futures |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sense Publishers |
| Year published | 2010-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 490 |
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