All Outputs (22)

Enhancing quality to address frailty (2017)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2017). Enhancing quality to address frailty. In I. Kinchin, & N. Winstone (Eds.), Pedagogic Frailty and the University (179-194). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-983-6_13

In preparing to face a globalised society characterised by uncertainty, complexity, risk and speed, academics and their students, it will be argued here, need to encounter a certain strangeness, dealing with knowledge that is uncomfortable, challengi... Read More about Enhancing quality to address frailty.

Ambivalence, Hybridity and Liminality: The Case of Military Education (2016)
Book Chapter
Syed Mohamed, A., Land., R., & Rattray, J. (2016). Ambivalence, Hybridity and Liminality: The Case of Military Education. In R. Land, J. Meyer, & M. Flanagan (Eds.), Threshold Concepts in Practice. Rotterdam, Taipei & Boston: Sense Publishers

Exploring Sources of Trouble in Research Learning for Undergraduate Nurses (2016)
Book Chapter
Martindale, L., Land., R., Rattray, J., & Anderson, A. (2016). Exploring Sources of Trouble in Research Learning for Undergraduate Nurses. In R. Land, J. Meyer, & M. Flanagan (Eds.), Threshold Concepts in Practice. Rotterdam, Taipei & Boston: Sense Publishers

Learners and organizations: competing patterns of risk, trust, and responsibility. (2016)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2016). Learners and organizations: competing patterns of risk, trust, and responsibility. In L. Leišytė, & U. Wilkesmann (Eds.), Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education: Teaching, learning, and identities (151-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315693729

This chapter attempts to addresses one of the central concerns of this volume, namely how discernible trends in teaching and learning might change organizational structures and behaviours. The principal research question of this chapter is to conside... Read More about Learners and organizations: competing patterns of risk, trust, and responsibility..

Affective Dimensions in Liminality (2016)
Book Chapter
Rattray, J. (2016). Affective Dimensions in Liminality. In R. Land, J. Meyer, & M. Flanagan (Eds.), Threshold concepts in practice (67-76). Sense Publishers

Toil and Trouble: Threshold Concepts as a Pedagogy of Uncertainty. (2016)
Book Chapter
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

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 edu... Read More about Toil and Trouble: Threshold Concepts as a Pedagogy of Uncertainty..

Preface (2015)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2015). Preface. In L. Adler-Kassner, & E. Wardle (Eds.), Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado & Logan, UT: Utah State University Press

Principles for reviewing the taught postgraduate induction curricula (2015)
Book Chapter
Rattray, J., & Smith, J. (2015). Principles for reviewing the taught postgraduate induction curricula. In P. Kneale (Ed.), Masters Level Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Issues in design and delivery. Palgrave

Facilitating the Academy through Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge. (2015)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2015). Facilitating the Academy through Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge. In J. Wiewiura, & E. Westergaard (Eds.), On the Facilitation of the Academy (17-29). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-974-6_2

However we decide to facilitate the Academy, our deliberations will eventually, inevitably, oblige us to consider the Academy’s curriculum, the nature of the knowledge we wish our students to encounter, and the nature of their learning and engagement... Read More about Facilitating the Academy through Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge..

Policy drivers and barriers to implementation: Context and practice (2013)
Book Chapter
Land, R., & Rattray, J. (2013). Policy drivers and barriers to implementation: Context and practice. In H. Eggins (Ed.), Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education. Sense: Rotterdam

Meanings of Enhancement (2013)
Book Chapter
Land, R., & Gordon, G. (2013). Meanings of Enhancement. In R. Land, & G. Gordon (Eds.), Enhancing Quality in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Routledge

Enhancing the Future: context and fidelity (2013)
Book Chapter
Land, R., & Gordon, G. (2013). Enhancing the Future: context and fidelity. In R. Land, & G. Gordon (Eds.), Enhancing Quality in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Routledge

'To See Ourselves as Others See Us': The Scottish Approach to Quality Enhancement (2013)
Book Chapter
Land, R., & Gordon, G. (2013). 'To See Ourselves as Others See Us': The Scottish Approach to Quality Enhancement. In R. Land, & G. Gordon (Eds.), Enhancing Quality in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Routledge

Discipline-based teaching. (2012)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2012). Discipline-based teaching. In L. Hunt, & D. Chalmers (Eds.), Focus on University Teaching. Acer Press

Crossing tribal boundaries: Interdisciplinarity as a threshold concept. (2012)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2012). Crossing tribal boundaries: Interdisciplinarity as a threshold concept. In P. Trowler, M. Saunders, & V. Bamber (Eds.), Tribes and territiories in the 21st century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. Routledge

The Scalpel and the 'Mask': Threshold concepts and Surgical Education. (2011)
Book Chapter
Land, R., & Meyer, J. (2011). The Scalpel and the 'Mask': Threshold concepts and Surgical Education. In H. Fry, & R. Kneebone (Eds.), Surgical Education. Theorising an emerging domain (91-106). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1682-7_6

Speed and the Unsettling of Knowledge in the digital University. (2011)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2011). Speed and the Unsettling of Knowledge in the digital University. In R. Land, & S. Bayne (Eds.), Digital Difference: Perspectives on Online Learning (61-70). (2). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-580-2_5

Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge (5): Dynamics of Assessment (2010)
Book Chapter
Land, R., & Meyer, J. (2010). Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge (5): Dynamics of Assessment. In J. Meyer, R. Land, & C. Baillie (Eds.), Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning (61-80). Sense Publishers

Educational Developers: Identity in paradox? (2010)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2010). Educational Developers: Identity in paradox?. In S. Boon, B. Matthew, & L. Sheward (Eds.), Creating a Profession - Building Careers in Educational Development. SEDA

Editors’ preface: Threshold concepts and transformational learning (2010)
Book Chapter
Land, R., Meyer, J. H., & Baillie, C. (2010). Editors’ preface: Threshold concepts and transformational learning. In R. Land, J. H. Meyer, & C. Baillie (Eds.), Threshold concepts and transformational learning (ix-xlii). Sense ; Brill