Overcoming barriers to student understanding
Subtitle: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge
By: edited by Jan Meyer and Ray Land.
Contributors: Meyer, Jan, 1946-; Land, Ray.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Concept learning; Knowledge, Theory of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: an introduction / Jan Meyer and Ray Land; title: Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: issues of liminality / Jan Meyer and Ray Land; title: Constructivism and troublesome knowledge / David Perkins; title: Metacognition, affect, and conceptual difficulty / Anastasia Efklides; title: Threshold concepts: how can we recognise them? / Peter Davies; title: Threshold concepts in biology: do they fit the definition? / Charlotte Taylor; title: The troublesome nature of a threshold concept in economics / Martin Shanahan and Jan Meyer; title: Threshold concepts in economics: a case study / Nicola Reimann and  Ian jackson; title: Threshold concepts, troublesome knowledge, and emotional capital: an exploration into learning about others / Glynis Cousin; title: Threshold concepts in introductory accounting / Ursula Lucas and Rosina Mladenovic; title: Disjunction as a form of troublesome knowledge in problem-based learning / Maggi Savin-Baden; title: On the mastery of philosophical concepts: Socratic discourse and the unexpected "affect" / Jenny Booth; title: Using analogy in science teaching as a bridge to students' understanding of complex issues / Simon Bishop; title: Implications of threshold concepts for curriculum design and evaluation / Ray Land ... [et al.].