The Liminal Space

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...

‘Liminal Dub’ by Gus Cummins

Images from ‘Dub in Liminal [4_TD$DIFF]Space’ produced in 2009–2010 towards MRes Digital Art and Technology at University of Plymouth. I embrace the ‘Dub [7_TD$DIFF]Reggae’ music genre. It strips the language from songs, sometimes returning it in a fragmented form, ornamented with delays and echoes. It provides an analogy for temporal lobe seizures; I experience dub versions of events, with lan...