Uncertain Love in 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 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...

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 ...

Love Wave Propagation in a Fiber-reinforced Layer with Corrugated Boundaries Overlying Heterogeneous Half-space

Love-type wave generation in a fiber-reinforced medium placed over an inhomogeneous orthotropic half-space is analysed. The upper and lower boundary surfaces of the fiber reinforced medium are periodically corrugated. Inhomogeneity of half-space is caused by variable density and variable shear modules. Displacement components for layer and half-space are derived by applying separable variable t...

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