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Toil and Trouble: Threshold Concepts as a Pedagogy of Uncertainty.

Land, R.

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J.H.F. Meyer
Editor

M.T. Flanagan
Editor

Abstract

A powerful discursive shift has occurred within higher education globally over the last three decades in which higher education teaching is rendered as the facilitation of ‘the student learning experience’, and as a primarily economic rather than educational transaction (Apple, 2000).

Citation

Land, R. (2016). Toil and Trouble: Threshold Concepts as a Pedagogy of Uncertainty. In R. Land, J. Meyer, & M. Flanagan (Eds.), Threshold Concepts in Practice (11-24). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-512-8_2

Online Publication Date Jan 1, 2016
Publication Date 2016-01
Deposit Date May 3, 2016
Pages 11-24
Series Title Educational futures: rethinking theory and practice, volume 68
Book Title Threshold Concepts in Practice
Chapter Number 2
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-512-8_2
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1672172