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Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments ETL in Undergraduate Courses p r o j e c t Occasional Report 4, May 2003 Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising within the Disciplines Jan Meyer and Ray Land • • • E S R C Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses Project, Higher and Community • • • ECONOMIC T L R P Education, School of Education, University of Edinburgh, Paterson’s Land, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh SOCI A L Teaching Learning RESEARCH EH8 8AQ. Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6669, email: etl@ed.ac.uk, URL: http://www.ed.ac.uk/etl Research Programme C O U N C I L Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising within the Disciplines Occasional Report 4 © ETL Project, Universities of Edinburgh, Coventry and Durham, 2003. Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses Project Higher and Community Education School of Education University of Edinburgh Paterson’s Land Holyrood Road Edinburgh EH8 8AQ. Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6669 email: etl@ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ed.ac.uk/etl The ETL Project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of its Teaching and Learning Research Programme URL: This report arises from ongoing research undertaken by the Economics team of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme Project ‘Enhancing Teaching and Learning Environment