Forging the jewels of the curriculum : educational practice inspired by a thermodynamic model of threshold concepts / by Jonathan Scott

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Forging the jewels of the curriculum : educational practice inspired by a thermodynamic model of threshold concepts / by Jonathan Scott

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Adopts a thermodynamic view of learning. Views internalisation of a threshold concept, the so-called act of 'passing through the portal', as a phase change. Postulates that threshold concepts are associated with learning that both involves a large entropy change and that has competing possible learning outcomes. Uses an analogy with enthalpy of matter to predict that certain learning activities will aid students, especially in the case of reaching true understanding of threshold concepts, m...

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2014

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Scott, Jonathan, (The University of Waikato)

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/35449797

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Learning -- Philosophy / College teaching -- Philosophy / Enthalpy / Thermodynamics

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