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 →

Amani Albuwardi Integrating authentic translation projects into translation curricula has been widely recognised as key to enhancing students’ translation competence and developing their professional identities. Although some of the research papers making this argument highlight the fact that this type of authentic learning experience might be difficult for learners, none of them has attempted to … Continue reading Threshold Concepts in Translation Education: Investigating troublesome areas for undergraduate translation students in project-based learning →