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Overcoming barriers to student understanding : threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge / edited by Jan Meyer and Ray Land.

Contributor(s): Meyer, Jan, 1946- | Land, Ray.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookDescription: xxiii, 213 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415374308 (hardback).Subject(s): Concept learning | Knowledge, Theory ofOnline resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description
Contents:
Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: an introduction / Jan Meyer and Ray Land -- Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: issues of liminality / Jan Meyer and Ray Land -- Constructivism and troublesome knowledge / David Perkins -- Metacognition, affect, and conceptual difficulty / Anastasia Efklides -- Threshold concepts: how can we recognise them? / Peter Davies -- Threshold concepts in biology: do they fit the definition? / Charlotte Taylor -- The troublesome nature of a threshold concept in economics / Martin Shanahan and Jan Meyer -- Threshold concepts in economics: a case study / Nicola Reimann and Ian jackson -- Threshold concepts, troublesome knowledge, and emotional capital: an exploration into learning about others / Glynis Cousin -- Threshold concepts in introductory accounting / Ursula Lucas and Rosina Mladenovic -- Disjunction as a form of troublesome knowledge in problem-based learning / Maggi Savin-Baden -- On the mastery of philosophical concepts: Socratic discourse and the unexpected "affect" / Jenny Booth -- Using analogy in science teaching as a bridge to students' understanding of complex issues / Simon Bishop -- Implications of threshold concepts for curriculum design and evaluation / Ray Land ... [et al.].
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: an introduction / Jan Meyer and Ray Land -- Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: issues of liminality / Jan Meyer and Ray Land -- Constructivism and troublesome knowledge / David Perkins -- Metacognition, affect, and conceptual difficulty / Anastasia Efklides -- Threshold concepts: how can we recognise them? / Peter Davies -- Threshold concepts in biology: do they fit the definition? / Charlotte Taylor -- The troublesome nature of a threshold concept in economics / Martin Shanahan and Jan Meyer -- Threshold concepts in economics: a case study / Nicola Reimann and Ian jackson -- Threshold concepts, troublesome knowledge, and emotional capital: an exploration into learning about others / Glynis Cousin -- Threshold concepts in introductory accounting / Ursula Lucas and Rosina Mladenovic -- Disjunction as a form of troublesome knowledge in problem-based learning / Maggi Savin-Baden -- On the mastery of philosophical concepts: Socratic discourse and the unexpected "affect" / Jenny Booth -- Using analogy in science teaching as a bridge to students' understanding of complex issues / Simon Bishop -- Implications of threshold concepts for curriculum design and evaluation / Ray Land ... [et al.].

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