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‘Threshold Guardians’

Threshold Concepts as Guardians of the Discipline

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Interdisciplinarity has undoubtedly changed the landscape of academic work in recent years and, increasingly, students are also ‘living the dream’; but it can be a dream of interdisciplinary possibilities that do not always come good, and have sometimes ‘succeeded’ only when we offset a great deal of time and effort that went on in the background.

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    Jason Davies

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    Ray Land

  2. The University of Queensland, Australia

    Jan H. F. Meyer

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    Michael T. Flanagan

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Davies, J. (2016). ‘Threshold Guardians’. In: Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F., Flanagan, M.T. (eds) Threshold Concepts in Practice. Educational Futures. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-512-8_10

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