Threshold Concepts
relates to communication — the ways that people interact, make up their minds, and change their minds
What is rhetorical
The new situation is very similar to all the situations you have faced before
What is a near near transfer
Ideas that are so central to understanding a particular subject that a learner can’t move forward in that area without grasping them
What are Threshold Concepts
How Wardle, Downs, and other researchers came together with their ideas about threshold concepts and how they were developed
What is collaborative conversation
We have to adapt it to the new situation, genre, purpose, audience, technology in ways that will work there
What is a far transfer
Doctors participate in these, discussing mistakes, untoward events, and deaths that occurred on their watch, determine responsibility, and figure out what to do differently next time
What are morbidity and mortality conferences (M&Ms)
A space where people move back and forth between clarity and confusion, where they start to get a handle on the ideas, then realize they don’t really have a handle on them
What is liminal space
The need or reason for a given act of communication
What is exigence
The four kinds of knowledge or ideas that readers bring to text
What are past experiences, reading expectations, needs, values,