Transcription of Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge
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Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses Project, Higher and CommunityEducation, School of Education, University of Edinburgh, Paterson s Land, Holyrood Road, EdinburghEH8 8AQ. Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6669, email: URL: Environmentsin Undergraduate CoursesThreshold Concepts andTroublesome Knowledge :Linkages to Ways of Thinking andPractising within the DisciplinesOccasional Report 4, May 2003 ECONOMIC& SOCIALRESEARCHCOUNCILE S R CTeaching & LearningResearch ProgrammeT L R PJan Meyer and Ray LandprojectETLT hreshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge : Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practisingwithin the DisciplinesOccasional Report 4 ETL Project, Universities of Edinburgh, Coventry and Durham, Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses ProjectHigher and Community EducationSchool of EducationUniversity of EdinburghPaterson s LandHolyrood RoadEdinburgh EH8 : +44 (0)131 651 6669email: ETL Project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of its Teaching andLearning Research ProgrammeURL.
threshold concept is thus seen as something distinct within what university teachers would typically describe as ‘core concepts’. Furthermore, threshold concepts may represent, or lead to, what Perkins (1999) describes as troublesome knowledge – knowledge that is conceptually difficult, counter-intuitive or ‘alien’.
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