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Threshold conceptapproach to curriculum design
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stuffing curriculum
with contentvs
focusing on what is
fundamental
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‘less is more’ approach to curriculum design
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concepts that are central to the mastery of a subject
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portals to new ways of thinking
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Mathematics:Algebraic notation
X2 = 1
X = 1 or X = -1
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Y = X2
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Cookery:Heat transfer
+ immediately
wait a few minutes then +
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Sports Science:
Aquatic confidence
Gaining confidence in the water
Appreciation of water as a sporting environment
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CharacteristicsTransformative
- shift in perception of the subject
Irreversible
- unlikely to be forgotten
Integrative
- exposes previously hidden interrelatedness
Bounded
- might define frontier into new area
Troublesome knowledge
- counter-intuitive, alien, incoherent
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Oscillation between old and new understandings
Occupation of liminal space while mastering threshold concept
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E-learninglends itself to required:
excursion
recursion
digression
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Meyer, J. and Land, R. (2003) Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising within the Disciplines, Occasional Report 4, Edinburgh: ETL Project
Available at:
http://www.tla.ed.ac.uk/etl/docs/ETLreport4.pdf
Reference
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What (in this subject):As a learner – did you find hard?
As a teacher – do some students never seem to learn?
As a designer – do students have to grasp to move on to higher levels of understanding?