How do you use threshold concepts to motivate lecturers/faculty to think about teaching?
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This blog is for the second biennual symposium on Threshold Concepts that will take place at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Ive found it particularly effective in getting interest in teaching and learning. Asking a grad student to do some interviews with faculty about what they think are threshold - actually get them talking about teaching without even knowing it!
Session 1
James Atherton and Renee Meyers speculated about threshold concepts as articles of faith, e.g. Whiteness and Raceism.
Anna-Karin Carstensen spoke of dealing with the Laplace transform in circuit theory as a threshold concept and introduced the idea of finding 'key concepts' that can help learners to look up the portal.
Atherton and Meyers also brought up the idea of threshold myths.
Jan Smith spoke about her ongoing study in which she followed new faculty during their first year. Professional learning - the process of becoming academic.
Some speculation on professional learning:
Affirmative precedes cognitive?
Ontological concerns dominate?
Conceptual epiphanies rare...
And Thresholds(?) in becoming academic:
Isolation
Idealism vs. reality
Values
Helen Day proposes that in the UK the drive to teach employability has become more or less a part of academic identity and that this might serve as a threshold for lectures whose individual values don't match with institional values.
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