{"id":6,"date":"2025-10-28T18:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/thresholdconceptsconference\/?p=6"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:38:43","slug":"appendix","status":"publish","type":"back-matter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/thresholdconceptsconference\/back-matter\/appendix\/","title":{"raw":"Glossary of Key Terms","rendered":"Glossary of Key Terms"},"content":{"raw":"<strong>Threshold Concept<\/strong>\nA core idea within a discipline that is transformative, integrative, irreversible, and often troublesome for learners. Crossing this threshold changes how learners understand and engage with the subject.\n\n<strong>Transformative<\/strong>\nDescribes the profound shift in perspective and identity that occurs when a learner grasps a threshold concept. It changes not just what they know, but how they think.\n\n<strong>Integrative<\/strong>\nA characteristic of threshold concepts that connects previously disconnected ideas, enabling learners to see relationships and patterns within a discipline.\n\n<strong>Irreversible<\/strong>\nOnce understood, a threshold concept is unlikely to be forgotten. Learners cannot easily return to their prior way of thinking.\n\n<strong>Troublesome Knowledge<\/strong>\nKnowledge that is conceptually difficult, counter-intuitive, or alien to a learner\u2019s existing framework, often causing discomfort or resistance.\n\n<strong>Liminality<\/strong>\nThe transitional state learners occupy when grappling with a threshold concept. It is marked by uncertainty, ambiguity, and oscillation between old and new understandings.\n\n<strong>Discursive Shift<\/strong>\nThe change in language and discourse that accompanies mastery of a threshold concept. Learners begin to \u201ctalk the talk\u201d of the discipline.\n\n<strong>Epistemological Obstacle<\/strong>\nA barrier to understanding rooted in the learner\u2019s prior assumptions or worldview, which must be overcome to grasp a threshold concept.\n\n<strong>Portal Metaphor<\/strong>\nThe idea that threshold concepts act as gateways or portals, opening new ways of thinking and enabling progression within a discipline.\n\n<strong>Identity Shift<\/strong>\nThe reconfiguration of a learner\u2019s sense of self as they adopt new disciplinary ways of knowing and being.","rendered":"<p><strong>Threshold Concept<\/strong><br \/>\nA core idea within a discipline that is transformative, integrative, irreversible, and often troublesome for learners. Crossing this threshold changes how learners understand and engage with the subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transformative<\/strong><br \/>\nDescribes the profound shift in perspective and identity that occurs when a learner grasps a threshold concept. It changes not just what they know, but how they think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Integrative<\/strong><br \/>\nA characteristic of threshold concepts that connects previously disconnected ideas, enabling learners to see relationships and patterns within a discipline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irreversible<\/strong><br \/>\nOnce understood, a threshold concept is unlikely to be forgotten. Learners cannot easily return to their prior way of thinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Troublesome Knowledge<\/strong><br \/>\nKnowledge that is conceptually difficult, counter-intuitive, or alien to a learner\u2019s existing framework, often causing discomfort or resistance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liminality<\/strong><br \/>\nThe transitional state learners occupy when grappling with a threshold concept. It is marked by uncertainty, ambiguity, and oscillation between old and new understandings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discursive Shift<\/strong><br \/>\nThe change in language and discourse that accompanies mastery of a threshold concept. 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