There have been multiple times in the last few months where I have thought “I can’t do this” or “they are expecting too much” but when pushing through, I realized I had more capacity than I thought and found new and more efficient ways to approach work I thought I already knew how to do. As a second-semester doctoral student I have already encountered troublesome knowledge and liminal spaces. Because the books and video specifically addressed threshold barriers in Higher Education, it was easy to read my situation into it. This was my own threshold moment: Before I read the books Overcoming Barriers to Students Understanding, and Threshold Concepts in Practice (and watched Robert Coven’s Ted Talk), I had not wrestled with the idea of threshold concepts, so had not considered how ubiquitous threshold barriers and moments were after I grasped the concept, I started seeing them, everywhere.Įverywhere included my own studies.
Put another way, before crossing the threshold barrier you see the world one way after crossing it you see it completely differently and can never go back to the way you used to perceive it. It represents a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing something without which the learner cannot progress.” (Meyer, 3). A threshold concept is “considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something. Those are two examples of threshold barriers. In between was a long, dark night of liminality. At dusk he was Jacob at dawn he was Israel. Jacob sent everything he owned across the river Jabbok utterly alone and afraid for his life, he wrestled The Angel of the Lord until he was given a new identity (and a permanent limp). Last week I read the story of Jacob in Genesis. Mild spoiler alert: It turns out that how people engage with the aliens leads to a major threshold moment for humanity and alters the course of history. Recently I watched the 2016 film “The Arrival” in which 12 extraterrestrial spacecraft visit Earth. Written by: Tim Clark on January 23, 2023 Threshold Concepts in Ministry Development
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