Threshold concepts

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Dr. Ray Land, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at Durham University. 'Threshold Concepts in a Neoliberal World'. June 2019. 'Ray Land on Threshold Concepts'

Decoding the disciplines and threshold concepts

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