Tuesday 31 March 2009

Year 1 Study Day 28 March 09

Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to the second Year 1 Study Day last Saturday. Sharing the campus with another event made it rather crowded, so thanks for your forebearance, and especial appreciation to the catering staff for their sterling efforts to make sure we were all fed and watered.

The plenary session on this occasion was home-grown. It does not look as though we shall be producing the video as we had expected; the strange arrangement of the twin lecture theatres was not conducive to keeping Peter and myself in view! However, here is the presentation, annotated for the benefit of those who weren't there to hear it.


The introductory paper for the afternoon discussions on Threshold Topics has been added to the Bedspce site here. It fills out some of the ideas illustrated on the slides, with particular reference to the broadening of the notion of threshold "concepts", to "topics", which may be psychomotor skills or knacks, or affective perspectives. They all continue to work in the same way, however, and of course they overlap.

Is this expansion legitimate? Please comment and discuss.

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