Brenda Refaei and Ruth Benander ePortfolios have the potential to provide users with an integrative learning experience, but implementation often falls short in actual practice because many administrators, faculty, and staff are unfamiliar with the threshold concepts associated with eportfolio learning and implementation. Faculty and staff must be comfortable with these threshold concepts if they … Continue reading Threshold Concepts Associated with ePortfolios →

Matthew Ravenstahl This paper will argue the lens of threshold concepts highlights inherent qualities of the art making process that transforms the discipline of art education by promoting a reflection upon pedagogy that incorporates the epistemological and semiotic nature of art making (Ravenstahl, 2018; Ravenstahl and Rattray, 2019). I want to add to this current … Continue reading Considering Art Education Through the Lens of Threshold Concepts and the Affective Dimension →

Andrea Webb This paper will discuss a current project that explores how to work with and support teacher candidates through a one-year, postbaccalaureate teacher education program. Specifically, Social Studies is one of the largest enrolling specialties in the Teacher Education Secondary program, with approximately 80 teacher candidates each year. The teacher candidates complete the program … Continue reading Becoming and Being: Threshold Concepts in Teacher Education →

Rachel Thompson Since the publication of Sicily Statement in 2003, teachers of evidence-based health care (EBHC) have become aware that students struggle to put these concepts and skills into practice as clinicians. For over nearly the same period, the explanatory Threshold Concept Framework (TCF) has demonstrated that transformative conceptual learning is key to gaining disciplinary … Continue reading Crossing the threshold to expertise: Critical thinking for clinical practice →

Susan Page Student resistance and racism - the residual effects of colonialism - are regular, persistent challenges for students and teachers in Indigenous Studies. Identifiable behaviours such as anger, silence, fear or guilt have been labelled white fragility and are said to reflect inherent white privilege. While cataloguing and documenting these behaviours can reassure teachers … Continue reading Rites of Passage in Indigenous Studies →

Anne Tierney This paper investigates potential ontological and epistemological threshold concepts (Meyer & Land, 2003, 2005) encountered by the facilitators and members of a faculty learning community (Cox, 2004) in a post–1992 university in Scotland. The faculty learning community brought together a diverse group of academics and professional services personnel with the aim of supporting … Continue reading Faculty Learning Communities: Threshold Concepts on holding it together →

Gina Wisker and Maggi Savin Baden Getting published in the publishing shark pool: a conceptual threshold crossing Writing is only the journey’s start. Getting published is essential, and as academics we are increasingly pressurised to publish more prolifically, in certain journals (international, highly-ranked, in English). Attempting publication, we face editors, reviewers, our own hesitancies, and … Continue reading Getting published in the publishing shark pool: a conceptual threshold crossing →

Peter Jones This presentation and Q&A draws on a two-part final draft paper addressing: Threshold Concepts, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding in the context of nursing-residential care and the conceptual framework known as Hodges’ Health Career – Care Domains – Model. Hodges’ model is introduced to explain its structure, content and applications. Threshold concepts are explored … Continue reading Knock, knock or Bang, bang? The moment when threshold concepts turn around a door →

Iain Stalker and Rinkal Desai In this session we invite colleagues interested in or involved with the teaching of business- and management-related concepts to students outside of the traditional Business School environments. In particular, we are keen to explore the universality of so-called “threshold concepts”: are these true thresholds to the subject per se and … Continue reading Threshold Concepts: Universal or Contextual? A Round Table Discussion →

Christine Bohlander The strength of Threshold Concepts is their breadth of applications due to their discipline-specific nature. However, the framework does not take into account how individual students navigate and negotiate cultural contested spaces. My ethnographic research of a small cohort of German theology students in Jerusalem brought to light that in disciplines where long-held … Continue reading Don’t carry me over the threshold →