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Higher education

discipline concepts that are hard to grasp but, once understood, permanently transform how a learner sees the subject.

In higher education, threshold concepts refers to discipline concepts that are hard to grasp but, once understood, permanently transform how a learner sees the subject. This meaning comes from Meyer (2005) in Higher Education.[1]

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discipline4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs FSH threshold concept1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct subject3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Meyer, J. H. F., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-004-6779-5

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