{"id":30635,"date":"2023-01-30T07:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=30635"},"modified":"2023-01-30T07:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:53:48","slug":"threshold-concept-story-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/threshold-concept-story-telling\/","title":{"rendered":"Threshold Concept & Story telling."},"content":{"rendered":"

Threshold Concept<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026that knowledge should indeed be \u2018troubling\u2019 in order for it to be transformative, this book provides new perspectives on helping students through such conceptual difficulty in order to enhance learning and teaching environments (Meyer and land, 2006).\u201d The barriers to understanding exits when intellectual and practical comprehension is absent. Basically, one can crosses the threshold (threshold concept) as he\/she understands the concept and has the knowledge to apply the theory. According to Meyer and Land, the threshold concept is likened unto a portal of thinking that has not been used before. \u201cIt represents a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing something without which the learner cannot progress. As a consequence of comprehending a threshold concept there may be may thus be a transformed internal view of subject matter, subject landscape, or even world view (Meyer and Land, 2006).\u201d A threshold concept is basically when the theory or concept is discovered, understood and moreover, being used or applied in real life situation.<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Coven in his TEDx Talks or presentation, \u201cBreaking Through: Threshold Concepts as a Key to Understanding,\u201d reiterated this point by saying that breaking through the threshold concepts is the \u201cah-ah moment.\u201d Dr. Coven went on to emphasize that in order to break through the threshold, we must dig deeper by asking the right questions, reading between the lines and be looking for what is missing (Coven, 2018).<\/p>\n

Rite of Passage<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on the writing of van Gennep and Turner, Meyer and Land likened the \u2018acquiring threshold concept\u2019 in some area to a \u2018rite of passage.\u2019 \u201cAs a medical graduate commented, getting through medical school is like getting your hand caught in a meat grinder, it keeps grinding and scooping up more of you as it goes. You gradually get bundled into a processed package and pop out as a doctor (Meyer and Land, 2006).\u201d<\/p>\n

A rite of passage is defined as \u201ca ritual, event, or experience that marks or constitutes a major milestone or change in a person\u2019s life (Online Webster Dictionary, 2023).\u201d<\/p>\n

Storytelling and Threshold Concept<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in the Pacific Islands, at one of the tiniest islands in Micronesia, I experienced something that is similar to this ritual, \u2018rite of passage. It was at the end of my sophomore year in Jr. High School, I was told by the eldest men in village that I needed to move from my family home to the local house (called fal, or uut, pictured on the right) where only men gathered. This was the beginning of the ritual, I had to live there throughout the summer. This ritual is called, \u201cfau-ke.\u201d It is a fishing ritual where the young adults (teenagers) are learning from the older generations the skills that is necessary for a man to have. Discussion topics ranges from cultural values to fishing techniques. During this ritual, as we were taught how these techniques of fishing, we went out fishing every day.<\/p>\n

It was during this time that we were taught the skills of everyday living that is necessary to have to survive on the island. The fal or the Uut was the classroom, the story telling was the means of imparting knowledge and the ocean was laboratory where we were experiencing what we were being taught.<\/p>\n

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Reference:<\/p>\n

Meyer. J and Land. R. (2006). Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge<\/em>. (1st<\/sup> Edition). London.<\/p>\n

Coven, R. (2018, November). Breaking Through: Threshold Concepts as a Key to Understanding <\/em>[Video]. TED Conferences. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GCPYSKSFky4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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