Threshold knowledge

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Eureka_effect/j6u4fN1G">Eureka effect</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Decoding_the_Disciplines/hE3g0LkL">Decoding the Disciplines</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Paradigm_shift/Bj24vT0p">Paradigm shift</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Tacit_knowledge/20CNaqW5">Tacit knowledge</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Propaedeutics/hs5xrJsm">Propaedeutics</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/thresholds.html">Threshold Concepts: Undergraduate Teaching, Postgraduate Training, Professional Development and School Education — A Short Introduction and a Bibliography fom 2003 to 2018</a> maintained by Mick Flanagan from <a href="/facts/University_College_London/7dmHhCf5">UCL</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/etl/docs/ETLreport4.pdf">ETL Project Occasional Report on threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, by Meyer and Land</a>[dead link‍] (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050217065411/http://www.ed.ac.uk/etl/docs/ETLreport4.pdf">archived</a>)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Meyer J H F and Land R 2003 "Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising" in Improving Student Learning: Ten Years On. C. Rust (Ed), OCSLD, Oxford. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Meyer J H F and Land R 2003 "Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising" in Improving Student Learning: Ten Years On. C. Rust (Ed), OCSLD, Oxford. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Meyer, Jan; Land, Ray; Baillie, Caroline, eds. (2010). Threshold concepts and transformational learning (PDF). Educational futures: rethinking theory and practice. Vol. 42. Rotterdam; Boston: Sense Publishers. p. ix. ISBN 9789460912054. OCLC 649651179. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2017-12-18. <a href="9789460912054" target="_blank">9789460912054</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Meyer JHF, Land R (2005). "Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (2): Epistemological considerations and a conceptual framework for teaching and learning" Higher Education, 49(3), 373-388. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Land, R., Cousin, G., Meyer, J.H.F. and Davies, P. (2005), "Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (3): implications for course design and evaluation", in C. Rust (ed.), Improving Student Learning − equality and diversity, Proceedings of the 12th Improving Student Learning Conference. Oxford: OCLSD. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Meyer J H F and Land R 2003 "Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising" in Improving Student Learning: Ten Years On. C. Rust (Ed), OCSLD, Oxford. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Meyer JHF, Land R (2005). "Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (2): Epistemological considerations and a conceptual framework for teaching and learning" Higher Education, 49(3), 373-388. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Land, R., Cousin, G., Meyer, J.H.F. and Davies, P. (2005), "Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (3): implications for course design and evaluation", in C. Rust (ed.), Improving Student Learning − equality and diversity, Proceedings of the 12th Improving Student Learning Conference. Oxford: OCLSD. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">Meyer, Jan; Land, Ray; Baillie, Caroline, eds. (2010). Threshold concepts and transformational learning (PDF). Educational futures: rethinking theory and practice. Vol. 42. Rotterdam; Boston: Sense Publishers. p. ix. ISBN 9789460912054. OCLC 649651179. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2017-12-18. <a href="9789460912054" target="_blank">9789460912054</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">Korosteleva, E. A. (2010) Threshold Concept Through Enactive Learnings: How Effective Are They in the Study of European Politics?, International Studies Perspectives, 11, 37-50. <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">Park EJ, Light G (2009). "Identifying Atomic Structure as a Threshold Concept: Student mental models and troublesomeness" International Journal of Science Education, 31(2), 233-258. <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">Baillie C, Goodhew P, Skryabina E (2006). "Threshold concepts in engineering education-exploring potential blocks in student understanding" International Journal of Engineering Education, 22(5), 955-962. <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">Davies, Peter; Mangan, Jean (December 2007). "Threshold concepts and the integration of understanding in economics". Studies in Higher Education. 32 (6): 711–726. doi:10.1080/03075070701685148. ISSN 0307-5079. S2CID 143662293. <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075070701685148" target="_blank">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075070701685148</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:14">Davies, Peter (January 2019). "The construction of frameworks in learners' thinking: Conceptual change and threshold concepts in economics". International Review of Economics Education. 30: 100135. doi:10.1016/j.iree.2018.05.002. S2CID 158978997. <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1477388018300069" target="_blank">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1477388018300069</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:15">Clouder L (2005). "Caring as a 'threshold concept': Transforming students in higher education into health (care) professionals" Teaching in Higher Education, 10(4), 505-517. <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:16">Bradbeer J (2006). "Threshold concepts within the disciplines". Planet, no. 17, 16-7. <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.96.1604&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=16" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.96.1604&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=16</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:17">Lucas, U., Mladenovic, R. (2007), "The potential of threshold concepts: an emerging framework for educational research and practice." London Review of Education, 5(3), 237−248. <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:18">Bulmer, M., O'Brien, M., Price, S. (2007) "Troublesome concepts in statistics: a student perspective on what they are and how to learn them", UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28−29, 2007, 9–15. <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.597.3009&rep=rep1&type=pdf" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.597.3009&rep=rep1&type=pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:19">"Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education". Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2017-10-19. <a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework" target="_blank">http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:20">Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. University Press of Colorado. 2015. ISBN 978-0-87421-989-0. JSTOR j.ctt15nmjt7. <a href="978-0-87421-989-0" target="_blank">978-0-87421-989-0</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:21">Rowbottom DP (2007). "Demystifying threshold concepts". Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41(2), 263–270. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00554.x <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:22">Shopkow L and Joan Middendorf J (2020). “Caution! Theories at play! Threshold Concepts and Decoding the Disciplines.” Threshold Concepts on the Edge edited by A. Timmermans and R. Land, 37-50. Leiden: Brill/Sense <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:23">Shopkow, L (2010). "What decoding the disciplines can offer threshold concepts." Threshold concepts and transformational learning, 317-331. Leiden:Brill. <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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