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Direct linkCalduch, Isaac; Rattray, Julie – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Within the Threshold Concepts Framework, 'postliminal variation' has been defined as the variation in the point and state of exit into a new conceptual space, and the epistemological and ontological terrain encountered from that point onwards. However, in the extensive published literature on threshold concepts, we find many cases in which its…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Higher Education, Concept Formation, World Views
Download full textSladek, Amanda – Composition Studies, 2019
The contextual nature of literacy is a threshold concept that one must move through to better understand composition as a discipline. A nuanced understanding of this concept enables students to critique dominant literacy ideologies and appreciate the diverse literacies present in everyday life. The literacy narrative, a genre that sometimes…
Descriptors: Literacy, Fundamental Concepts, Multiple Literacies, Freshman Composition
Wayne Sigler – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2017
"SEM Core Concepts" is designed to provide busy professionals with an overview of strategic enrollment management (SEM). The guide is organized around the following topics: definitions of SEM and examples of what it is not; the evolution of SEM, including its developmental stages that provided the building blocks for the current best…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, College Administration, Definitions, Development
Timmermans, Julie A.; Meyer, Jan H. F. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
In this paper, we propose a framework to help educational developers navigate the now vast literature on threshold concepts, so that they may effectively support university teachers in their work to embed threshold concept knowledge into courses and programs. This research- and practice-informed framework consists of seven principles and seven…
Descriptors: Educational Development, College Faculty, Fundamental Concepts, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Folk, Amanda L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
This comparison seeks to determine if the three documents addressing information literacy skills and competence developed by professional library associations for postsecondary education in four predominantly English-speaking countries--the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand--have similar or varying conceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Postsecondary Education, Information Skills
Müürsepp, Mare; Kikkull, Andry – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2014
The aim of the study is to clear the significance of craft skills for the pupils in age nine and twelve years. More than 200 pupils were asked to define, what are the most important skills for the pupils of their age. The results bring out that category of the skills related to craft subject is of the most presented categories in pupils' self…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Fundamental Concepts, Elementary School Students, Skill Analysis
