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Transdisciplinary Threshold Concepts in Techno-Anthropology
Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher EducationThis paper reflects on a slow re-reading of Maggi Savin-Baden’s “Impact of Transdisciplinary Threshold Concepts on Student Engagement in Problem-Based Learning” and its relation to the author’s experiences as a teacher and curriculum developer in Techno-
Tom Børsen
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‘Getting stuck’ in analogue electronics: Threshold concepts as an explanatory model [PDF]
, 2011 Could the challenge of mastering threshold concepts be a potential factor that influences a student's decision to continue in electronics engineering? This was the question that led to a collaborative research project between educational researchers and ...
Cowie, Bronwen +3 more
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Exploring Film History by Using Fandom as a Pedagogical Tool
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021 An exploration of the terrain of how to engage learners effectively and why that matters. Using fan engagement in the field of film history reveals that encouraging learners to self-identify as fans shifts the power balance, placing the learner in the ...
Ellen Wright
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Exact Coupling Threshold for Structural Transition in Interconnected Networks [PDF]
, 2014 Interconnected networks are mathematical representation of systems where two or more simple networks are coupled to each other. Depending on the coupling weight between the two components, the interconnected network can function in two regimes: one where
Sahneh, Faryad Darabi +2 more
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Threshold Concepts in Quantitative Reasoning
NumeracyThe idea of “threshold concepts” has been used to identify discipline-based concepts that are critical to that academic area. Threshold concepts are often difficult for students to assimilate in a meaningful way but, once done, can be powerful for the ...
Judith Canner, Jennifer Clinkenbeard
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Disciplines, Outcomes and Purpose in Social Science Education [PDF]
Journal of Social Science Education, 2006 The gap between school knowledge and academic knowledge has long been acknowledged. The division of the curriculum into separate academic subjects has sometimes been blamed for this problem.
Richard Dunnill, Peter Davies
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‘Making is Thinking’: From Design Fixation to Provocative Competence
ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 2022 To prepare our students for an unfamiliar future and unknown challenges, it is important that they are experienced in methods and strategies that equip them to manoeuvre in, and find solutions to, complex and unpredictable situations.
Gro Rødne, Leif M. Hokstad
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Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy [PDF]
, 2011 What do we teach when we teach information literacy in higher education? This paper describes a pedagogical approach to information literacy that helps instructors focus content around transformative learning thresholds.
Brunetti, Korey +2 more
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The Role of Wonder in Students’ Conception of and Learning About Evolution
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023 Learning about evolution can be challenging for students, as a full understanding may require them to see the world in new ways, to master a disciplinary language and to understand complex processes.
Bodil Sundberg, Magdalena Andersson
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The boundary flux. New perspectives for membrane process design [PDF]
, 2015 In the last decades much effort was put in understanding fouling phenomena on membranes. Many new concepts have been introduced in time, and parallel to this many parameters capable to quantify fouling issues and fouling evolution.
CHIANESE, Angelo +5 more
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