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Ambivalence, Hybridity and Liminality

The Case of Military Education

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Threshold Concepts in Practice

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This chapter arises from doctoral research into the threshold concepts required to transform civilians into soldiers, and subsequently into military officers. In addition to identifying the conceptual thresholds involved in a successful transformation, the study also attempts to determine the necessary ontological shifts that such a transformation entails.

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  1. National Defence University of Malaysia (NDUM), Malaysia

    Ahmad Thamrini F. Syed Mohamed

  2. Durham University, UK

    Ray Land

  3. Durham University, UK

    Julie Rattray

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    Ray Land

  2. The University of Queensland, Australia

    Jan H. F. Meyer

  3. University College London, UK

    Michael T. Flanagan

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Mohamed, A.T.F.S., Land, R., Rattray, J. (2016). Ambivalence, Hybridity and Liminality. 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_7

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