Philip Davidson, Ceri Butler and Sarah Rafferty Background Threshold Concepts (TCs) represent transformative events during which learners traverse a metaphorical gateway and gain new insights (Meyer & Land, 2003). TCs have been of increased interest to medical educationalists over the last few years. This paper, building on Hokstad and Gundrosen (2016), seeks to identify TCs … Continue reading Medical Student Simulation Teaching and Novel Threshold Concepts →

Jessica Goebel and Suriamurthee Maistry The liminal traverse, and the transformation it engenders in the learner, are central to the threshold concepts view of learning; yet (because it is essentially subjective and not directly observable) this remains an aspect of the framework about which we (still) know the least (Rattray, 2016). In this paper, we … Continue reading Liminality from the inside: Dimensions of students’ transformations in a threshold concepts-infused economics programme in South Africa →

Leif Martin Hokstad and Bjørn Otto Braaten The concept of liminality has earned renewed interest within a wide range of academic disciplines the last twenty years, fuelled by the centenary anniversary of ‘Rite de Passage’, van Gennep’s classic, gaining a renewed interest and expanding to education, economy and political studies (van Gennep 1909/1960, Meyer and … Continue reading The Many Faces of Liminality – Thinking with Liminality →