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Scholarship July 4, 2025

Before and after students “get it”: threshold concepts

The Wabash Center

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"Threshold concepts" is a concept term gives a name to points in new learning that mark a departure from old ways of viewing the world and entrance into new ways that may be counterintuitive and thus upsetting ("troublesome knowledge") and yet they are ways that must be grasped in order to go forward in learning.