Space for the Liminal

Studenthood and identification: higher education as a liminal transitional space

What does it mean to be a student in a period of mass higher education? A growing number of researchers in post-compulsory education and training have explored questions of identity as a significant dimension of the learning experience (Tedder and Biesta 2009; Merrill 2009). This paper provides a conceptual discussion of studenthood as a way of understanding the ways in which student identities...

Learning in the liminal space: a semiotic approach to threshold concepts

The threshold concepts approach to student learning and curriculum design now informs an empirical research base comprising over 170 disciplinary and professional contexts. It draws extensively on the notion of troublesomeness in a ‘liminal’ space of learning. The latter is a transformative state in the process of learning in which there is a reformulation of the learner’s meaning frame and an ...

Life at the 49th Parallel: Media, Space, and the Liminal Perspective

Learning in Liminal Spaces

The term ‘unconference’ is a generic term for a virtual debate between professionals, who are seen as equals regardless of status, culture and nationality. The unconference mode of informal learning has recently been modified by professional educators in a version called a MirandaMod, started in 2007 by members of MirandaNet, a professional organisation founded in 1992. In these events a wide r...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...