Threshold concepts : from personal practice to communities of practice /
Threshold concepts : from personal practice to communities of practice /
edited by Catherine O'Mahony ... [et al.]
- Dublin : NAIRTL, 2014.
- 164 pages ; 30 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1: Keynote Speakers: A closer look at liminality: incorrigibles and threshold capital / Ray Land -- Threshold concepts: navigating the route / Bettie Higgs -- Threshold concepts as an analytical tool for researching Higher Education pedagogy / Glynis Cousin -- From this curriculum to that which is to come: Threshold concepts, complexity and change / Patrick Carmichael -- Part 2: Engaging Students with Threshold Concepts: Crossing a threshold concept in biology, variation in student learning / Belinda Allen -- Doing history: what may liminal space and transition time expose during the process / James Cronin -- Novel threshold concepts in the mathematical sciences / David Easdown -- Engineering problem solving: uncovering a Threshold experience and triggering a meta-learning response / Brian Foley -- The Hero s Journey: Uncovering threshold barriers, dispositions and practices among occupational therapy students / Tracy Fortune -- Students perceptions of travel through the liminal space: lessons for teaching / Ann Harlow -- the role of design projects in assisting engineering students from liminality to understanding / Donal Holland -- Now I know why I have been knocking my head against a brick wall: doctoral candidates and stuck places / Margaret Kiley -- Towards a role-reversal model of threshold concept pedagogy / Marina Orsini-Jones -- Using a mixed methods approach to explore student understanding of hypotheses in biology / Charlotte Taylor -- Part 3: Interdisciplinary Threshold Concepts: Interdisciplinarity and information literacy instruction: a Threshold concepts approach / Korey Brunetti -- How do you know?" The threshold concept, multi-disciplinary approaches and the Age of Uncertainty / Brendan Hall -- Seeing deeply in space and through time: interdisciplinarity meets threshold concepts in earth and environmental science / Anne Marie Ryan -- Part 4: New Developments in Threshold Concepts: The "science education for new civic engagements and responsibilities", a US national initiative linking sciences, public issues and Threshold concepts / Monica Devanas -- Towards a TCT-inspired electronics concept inventory / Jonathan Scott -- Threshold concepts and decoding the humanities: a case study of a threshold concept in Art History / Brad Wuetherick -- Student understanding of the critical features of an hypothesis: variation across epistemic and heuristic dimensions / Kirsten Zimbardi -- Part 5: Threshold Concepts in Professional Development: Threshold concepts and practices in teacher education: Professional, educator and student perspectives / Ann Devitt -- A comparactive academic/industrial professional development study of threshold concepts in project management / Mick Flanagan -- Shifting identity in teacher development / Colleen P. Gilrane -- Up close and personal: engaging learners with Service user knowledge / Gloria Kirwan -- There s a right answer but only some students can get it: threshold concepts in the professional development of Physics laboratory demonstrators / Ruth Mills -- A broader threshold: including skills as well as concepts in computing education / Lynda Thomas. -- Voice, vision and articulation: conceptual threshold crossing in academic writing / Gina Wisker.
Papers presented at the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference and 6th NAIRTL Annual Conference held in Dublin 28-29 June, 2013.
9781906642587
Education, Higher
Education--Research--Ireland.
378.17
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1: Keynote Speakers: A closer look at liminality: incorrigibles and threshold capital / Ray Land -- Threshold concepts: navigating the route / Bettie Higgs -- Threshold concepts as an analytical tool for researching Higher Education pedagogy / Glynis Cousin -- From this curriculum to that which is to come: Threshold concepts, complexity and change / Patrick Carmichael -- Part 2: Engaging Students with Threshold Concepts: Crossing a threshold concept in biology, variation in student learning / Belinda Allen -- Doing history: what may liminal space and transition time expose during the process / James Cronin -- Novel threshold concepts in the mathematical sciences / David Easdown -- Engineering problem solving: uncovering a Threshold experience and triggering a meta-learning response / Brian Foley -- The Hero s Journey: Uncovering threshold barriers, dispositions and practices among occupational therapy students / Tracy Fortune -- Students perceptions of travel through the liminal space: lessons for teaching / Ann Harlow -- the role of design projects in assisting engineering students from liminality to understanding / Donal Holland -- Now I know why I have been knocking my head against a brick wall: doctoral candidates and stuck places / Margaret Kiley -- Towards a role-reversal model of threshold concept pedagogy / Marina Orsini-Jones -- Using a mixed methods approach to explore student understanding of hypotheses in biology / Charlotte Taylor -- Part 3: Interdisciplinary Threshold Concepts: Interdisciplinarity and information literacy instruction: a Threshold concepts approach / Korey Brunetti -- How do you know?" The threshold concept, multi-disciplinary approaches and the Age of Uncertainty / Brendan Hall -- Seeing deeply in space and through time: interdisciplinarity meets threshold concepts in earth and environmental science / Anne Marie Ryan -- Part 4: New Developments in Threshold Concepts: The "science education for new civic engagements and responsibilities", a US national initiative linking sciences, public issues and Threshold concepts / Monica Devanas -- Towards a TCT-inspired electronics concept inventory / Jonathan Scott -- Threshold concepts and decoding the humanities: a case study of a threshold concept in Art History / Brad Wuetherick -- Student understanding of the critical features of an hypothesis: variation across epistemic and heuristic dimensions / Kirsten Zimbardi -- Part 5: Threshold Concepts in Professional Development: Threshold concepts and practices in teacher education: Professional, educator and student perspectives / Ann Devitt -- A comparactive academic/industrial professional development study of threshold concepts in project management / Mick Flanagan -- Shifting identity in teacher development / Colleen P. Gilrane -- Up close and personal: engaging learners with Service user knowledge / Gloria Kirwan -- There s a right answer but only some students can get it: threshold concepts in the professional development of Physics laboratory demonstrators / Ruth Mills -- A broader threshold: including skills as well as concepts in computing education / Lynda Thomas. -- Voice, vision and articulation: conceptual threshold crossing in academic writing / Gina Wisker.
Papers presented at the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference and 6th NAIRTL Annual Conference held in Dublin 28-29 June, 2013.
9781906642587
Education, Higher
Education--Research--Ireland.
378.17