Overcoming barriers to student understanding : threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge / edited by Jan H.F. Meyer and Ray Land.

"First published in 2006. First issued in paperback ed 2012."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge : an introduction / Jan Meyer and Ray Land -- Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge : issues of liminality / Jan Meyer and Ray Land -- Constructivism and troublesome knowledge / David Perkins -- Metacognition, affect, and conceptual difficulty / Anastasia Efklides -- Threshold concepts : how can we recognise them? / Peter Davies -- Threshold concepts in biology : do they fit the definition? / Charlotte Taylor -- The troublesome nature of a threshold concept in economics / Martin Shanahan and Jan H.F. Meyer -- Threshold concepts in economics : a case study / Nicola Reimann and Ian Jackson -- Threshold concepts, troublesome knowledge and emotional capital : an exploration into learning about others / Glynis Cousin -- Developing new 'world views' : threshold concepts in introductory accounting / Ursula Lucas and Rosina Mladenovic -- Disjunction as a form of troublesome knowledge in problem-based learning / Maggi Savin-Baden -- On the mastery of philosophical concepts : Socratic discourse and the unexpected 'affect' / Jennifer Booth -- Using analogy in science teaching as a bridge to students' understanding of complex issues / Simon Bishop -- Implications of threshold concepts for curriculum design and evaluation / Ray Land ... [and others]