Threshold Connections: Engaging trainee teachers in collaborative curriculum research to explore Threshold Concepts within secondary school science disciplines.
Dunn, M. J. and Wynn, J. A. (2024) Threshold Connections: Engaging trainee teachers in collaborative curriculum research to explore Threshold Concepts within secondary school science disciplines. In: Threshold Concepts in the Moment. Educational Futures (77). Brill, The Netherlands, pp. 225-239. ISBN 9789004680647
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Abstract
This chapter explores the pedagogical potential of investigating secondary school science curricula through the lens of the Threshold Concept Framework (TCF). A cohort of trainee secondary school science teachers in England worked collaboratively to co-construct their understanding of threshold concepts in A-level sciences based on their individual perceptions and experiences. Findings are presented thematically through the voices of the participants as they explored their subject disciplines and discussed and debated what they considered to be threshold concepts. Themes emerged which are argued here to be inter-disciplinary Threshold Epistemes, concepts that are not the difficult content areas identified as troublesome but constitute more abstract ideas which are fundamental to thinking as a scientist within and across sub-disciplines. These are ways of understanding, and/or systems of ideas. Threshold Epistemes identified and discussed here are: models, scale, randomness and language. This chapter further argues that the process of engaging with the TCF as a theoretical framework has potential to be pedagogically productive for teachers and pupils.
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 Brill. This is an author-produced version of a chapter accepted for publication. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Divisions: | School of Teacher Development |
| Depositing User: | Dr Matthew Dunn |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2023 10:10 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2024 10:18 |
| URI: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/994 |
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