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Publication Date: 2012-May
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Tribes, Territories and Threshold Concepts: Educational Materialisms at Work in Higher Education
Carmichael, Patrick
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v44 suppl s1 p31-42 May 2012
The idea of transformative and troublesome "threshold concepts" has been popular and influential in higher education. This article reports how teachers with different disciplinary affiliations responded to the "concept of thresholds" in the course of a cross-disciplinary research project. It describes how the idea was territorialised and enacted through established materialising discourses in different disciplinary settings and enacted through pedagogical practice, technology and assessment. This has implications for professional development and pedagogical practice and endeavours to create "self-organising classrooms" along Deleuzian lines.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Technology, Educational Assessment, Faculty Development, College Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Research Projects, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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