Davies, J;
(2015)
Threshold concepts and teaching ancient religion (or: What has educational development ever done for us?).
Presented at: Teaching and Learning Ancient Religion Lecture Series, Senate House, London, UK.
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Abstract
Educational developers are the Euripidean oistros of teaching in higher education, pushing for small changes that could accumulate into a transformation. But this does not always appear to pose intellectual challenges within a discipline so it becomes “teaching, not research”. One framework in this area is ‘threshold concepts’ which, instead of smoothing out the learning journey, emphasises its initiatory aspects. It hovers inquisitively around the perplexity and intellectual transformation that we are seeking to induce as teachers of ancient religion, and invites the kind of reconceptualisation that blurs distinctions like ‘teaching’ and ‘research’.
| Type: | Conference item (Presentation) |
|---|---|
| Title: | Threshold concepts and teaching ancient religion (or: What has educational development ever done for us?) |
| Event: | Teaching and Learning Ancient Religion Lecture Series, Senate House |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Dates: | 23 September 2015 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://tlarblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/threshol... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Threshold Concepts, Interdisciplinarity, Ancient History |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060014 |
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