Resources


Threshold concepts website links


Threshold Concepts: Undergraduate Teaching, Postgraduate Training, Professional Development and School Education: A Short Introduction and a Bibliography
Threshold Concepts: Key Meyer and Land Papers
Threshold Concepts: Features of a Threshold Concept
Threshold Concepts: Books on the Threshold Concept or with a significant emphasis on the Threshold Concept
Threshold Concepts: Theses and Dissertations
Threshold Concepts: Threshold Concept Specialist Groups
Threshold Concepts: Journal and Book Special Issues

Project websites featuring research into threshold concepts


Threshold Concept Games Project
Threshold Concepts in Biology
Engineering Thresholds: An Approach to Curriculum Renewal

Previous threshold concepts conferences


6th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada
5th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference
Future Conferences, Symposia and Workshops on or strongly featuring the Threshold Concept
Recent Conferences, Symposia and Workshops on or strongly featuring the Threshold Concept


References


Barradell, S., & Peseta, T. (2016). Promise and challenge of identifying threshold concepts: A cautionary account of using transactional curriculum inquiry. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 40(2), 262-275.


Berg, T., Erichsen, M., & Hokstad, L. M. (2016). Stuck at the threshold: Which strategies do students choose when facing liminality within certain disciplines at a business school? In R. Land, J. H. F. Meyer, & M. T. Flanagan (Eds.), Threshold concepts in practice (pp. 107-118). Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers.


Boyd, D. E. (2015). The growth mindset approach: A threshold concept in course redesign. Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning, 6, 29-44.


Boyd, D. E., & Lonsbury, J. (2016). Guiding on the Edge: Online and F2F course design as a threshold process. Paper presented at the 6th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference: Thresholds on the Edge, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.


Bunnell, S. L., & Bernstein, D. J. (2012). Overcoming some threshold concepts in scholarly teaching. Journal of Faculty Development. Special Issue: Threshold Concepts in Educational Development, 26(3), 14-18.


Carmichael, P. (2012). Tribes, Territories and Threshold Concepts: Educational materialisms at work in higher education. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Special Issue: The Future of Educational Materialism, 44(Supplement s1), 31–42.


Cousin, G. (2006). An introduction to threshold concepts. Planet, 17(December), 4-5. http://www.et.kent.edu/fpdc-db/files/DD%2002-threshold.pdf


Cousin, G. (2009). Transactional curriculum inquiry: Researching threshold concepts in Researching learning in higher education: An introduction to contemporary methods and approaches (pp. 201-212). Abingdon & NY: Routledge.


Davies, P., & Mangan, J. (2008). Embedding threshold concepts: From theory to pedagogical principles to learning activities. In R. Land, J. H. F. Meyer, & J. Smith (Eds.), Threshold concepts within the disciplines. Rotterdam: Sense.


Gosselin, K. P., Northcote, M., Reyaud, D., Kilgour, P., Anderson, M., & Boddey, C. (2016). Development of an evidence-based professional learning program informed by online teachers' self-efficacy and threshold concepts. Online Learning Journal, 20(3), 178-194.


Gosselin, K. P., Northcote, M., Reynaud, D., Kilgour, P., Anderson, M., & Boddey, C. (2014). Threshold concepts about online teaching: Progress report on a five year project. Paper presented at the Threshold Concepts in Practice: 5th Biennial International Threshold Concepts Conference, Collingwood College, Durham University, UK. http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/abstracts/TC14Abstract70.pdf


Jooganah, K. (2010). Student transition to advanced mathematical thinking: A focus on ‘proof ‘as a threshold concept. Paper presented at the 3rd Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium: Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts, University of NSW and University of Sydney. http://www.thresholdconcepts2010.unsw.edu.au/Abstracts/JooganahK.pdf


Kiley, M. (2009). Identifying threshold concepts and proposing strategies to support doctoral candidates. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 46(3), 293-304.


Kiley, M., & Wisker, G. (2009). Threshold concepts in research education and evidence of threshold crossing. Higher Education Research and Development, 28(4), 431-441.


King, C., & Felten, P. (2012). Threshold concepts in educational development: An introduction. Journal of Faculty Development. Special Issue: Threshold Concepts in Educational Development, 26(3), 5-7.


Land, R. (2016). Toil and trouble: Threshold concepts as a pedagogy of uncertainty in Threshold concepts in practice (pp. 11-24). Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers.


Land, R., Cousin, G., Meyer, J. H. F., & Davies, P. (2005). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (3): Implications for course design and evaluation: Improving Student Learning–equality and diversity. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 12th Improving Student Learning Conference, Oxford.


Land, R., & Meyer, J. H. F. (2010). Threshold concepts and troublesome: Dynamics of assessment. In R. Land, J. H. F. Meyer, & C. Baillie (Eds.), Threshold concepts and transformational learning (pp. 61-79). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.


Land, R., Meyer, J. H. F., & Baillie, C. (2010a). Editors' Preface: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning. In R. Land, J. H. F. Meyer, & C. Baillie (Eds.), Threshold concepts and transformational learning (pp. ix-xlii). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.


Land, R., Meyer, J. H. F., & Baillie, C. (2010b). Threshold concepts and transformational learning. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.


McGowan, S. (2012). Obstacle or opportunity? Digital thresholds in professional development. Journal of Faculty Development. Special Issue: Threshold Concepts in Educational Development, 26(3), 25-28.


Meyer, J. H. F., & Land, R. (2003). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practising within the disciplines in Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses Project, Occasional Paper 4 (pp. 1-12). Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.


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.


Meyer, J. H. F., & Land, R. (2006a). Overcoming barriers to student understanding: Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge. New York: Routledge.


Meyer, J. H. F., & Land, R. (2006b). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Issues of liminality. In J. H. F. Meyer & R. Land (Eds.), Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (pp. 19-32). London and New York: Routledge.


Meyer, J. H. F., Land, R., & Davies, P. (2008). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (4): Issues of variation and variability. In R. Land, J. H. F. Meyer, & J. Smith (Eds.), Threshold concepts within the disciplines (pp. 59-74). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.


Mills, R., & Wilson, A. (2012). There's a right answer but only some students can get it: Threshold concepts in the professional development of physics demonstrators. Paper presented at the Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin. http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/EPub_2012Proceedings.pdf#page=158


Northcote, M., Gosselin, K. P., Reynaud, D., Kilgour, P., & Anderson, M. (2015). Navigating learning journeys of online teachers: Threshold concepts and self-efficacy. Issues in Educational Research, 25(3), 319-344.


Northcote, M., Gosselin, K. P., Reynaud, D., Kilgour, P., Anderson, M., & Boddey, C. (2017). Reversing the tyranny of distance education: using research about threshold concepts to humanise online course design. In M. Northcote & K. P. Gosselin (Eds.), Handbook of research on humanizing the distance learning experience (pp. 232-255). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.


Northcote, M., Reynaud, D., Beamish, P., Martin, T., & Gosselin, K. P. (2011). Bumpy moments and joyful breakthroughs: The place of threshold concepts in academic staff development programs about online learning and teaching. ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies, 30(2), 75-90.


O'Brien, M. (2008). Threshold concepts for university teaching and learning: A study of troublesome knowledge and transformative thinking in the teaching of threshold concepts in Threshold concepts within the disciplines (pp. 289-305). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.


Orsini-Jones, M. (2008). Troublesome language knowledge: Identifying threshold concepts in grammar learning. In R. Land, J. H. F. Meyer, & J. Smith (Eds.), Threshold concepts within the disciplines (pp. 213-226). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.


Osmond, J., & Turner, A. (2010). The threshold concept journey in design: From identification to application. In J. H. F. Meyer, R. Land, & C. Baillie (Eds.), Threshold concepts and transformational learning (pp. 347-364). Boston, Rotterdam, Taipei: Sense Publishers.


Perkins, D. (2006). Constructivism and troublesome knowledge. In J. Meyer & R. Land (Eds.), Overcoming barriers to student understanding: Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (pp. 33-47). New York: Routledge.


Quinlan, K. M., Male, S., Fill, J., Jaffer, Z., Stamboulis, A., & Baillie, C. (2012). Understanding thresholds in first year engineering: digging beneath Mohr's Circle. Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium for Engineering Education, The University of Sheffield, UK. http://isee2012.group.shef.ac.uk/docs/papers/paper_29.pdf


Savin-Baden, M., Sinclair, C., Sanders, C., & Wind, S. (2007, 21-23 March). Lurking on the threshold: Being learners in silent spaces. Paper presented at the Ideas in Cyberspace Education Ross Priory Loch Lomond.


Schwartzman, L. (2010). Transcending disciplinary boundaries: A proposed theoretical foundation for threshold concepts. In J. H. F. Meyer, R. Land, & C. Baillie (Eds.), Threshold concepts and transformational learning (pp. 21-44). Boston, Rotterdam, Taipei: Sense Publishers.


Selkrig, M. A. (2012). Becoming a bricoleur: constructing sculptures to explore complex and troublesome dimensions in educational research. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 1-14.


Timmermans, J. (2010). Changing our minds: The developmental potential of threshold concepts. In J. H. Meyer, R. Land, & C. Baillie (Eds.), Threshold concepts and transformational learning (pp. 3-19). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.


Townsend, L., Hofer, A. R., Hanick, S. L., & Brunetti, K. (2016). Identifying threshold concepts for information literacy: A Delphi study. Communications in Information Literacy, 10(1), 23-49.


Werder, C., Thibou, S., & Kaufer, B. (2012). Students as co-inquirers: A requisite threshold concept in educational development? Journal of Faculty Development. Special Issue: Threshold Concepts in Educational Development, 26(3), 34-38.


Wisker, G. (2016). Beyond blockages to ownership, agency and articulation: Liminal spaces and conceptual threshold crossing in doctoral learning. In R. Land, J. H. F. Meyer, & M. T. Flanagan (Eds.), Threshold concepts in practice (pp. 165-176). Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers.


Wisker, G., Kiley, M., & Aiston, S. (2006). Making the learning leap: Research students crossing conceptual thresholds In M. Kiley & G. Mullines (Eds.), Quality in postgraduate research: Knowledge creation in testing times. Canberra: CEDAM, The Australian National University