This special issue on “Threshold Concepts in Management Education” invites readers to engage with a distinctive category of concepts that, when learned, result in students “seeing things in a new way” and thereby making transformative leaps in understanding (Meyer & Land, 2003, p. 1). Threshold concepts have garnered much attention and enthusiasm in the broader education literature over the pas...

The conventional linear model of pedagogical practices promotes subject-centric memorizing, considering learners as knowledge recipients rather than generators knowledge. This practice degrades educational values by ignoring alternative inquiry-based visionaries and meaning-making approaches. Different forms art in pedagogy, such poetry, autobiographical reflection, visual arts (i.e., paintings...

The enactive approach to cognition is developed in the context of music and music education. I discuss how this embodied point of view affords a relational and bio-cultural perspective on music that decentres the Western focus on language, symbol and representation as the fundamental arbiters of meaning. I then explore how this 'life-based' approach to cognition and meaning-making offers a welc...

This paper outlines a four-year study of a preservice education course based on a socioconstructivist research framework. The preservice English Language Arts course focuses on critical literacy and teaching for social justice while employing digital technologies.The research study examines two concepts across all aspects of the course: 1) new literacies and multiliteracies; and 2) technology-s...

This paper explores ways in which experiential learning theories, in particular transformative learning theory, can inform farmer participatory research and extension (PR&E). I identify and discuss three key elements of experiential learning theory – second-order experiences, reflection, and dialogue – that are particularly pertinent to PR&E practice. I then turn to one experiential learning th...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can do more than benefit teaching and learning in rural schools; it can also be a catalytic and transformative tool that induces knowledge reformation and production amongst learners in an informed society. In this paper our focus is on how ICT education practices in rural schools in marginalized communities can be transformed to develop knowledge ...

Because computers potentially transform pedagogy, much has been made of their ability to impact positively on student performance, particularly in subjects such as mathematics and science. However, there is currently a dearth of research regarding exactly how the computer acts as a transformative tool in disadvantaged schools. Drawing on a detailed case study of a Grade 6 mathematics classroom ...

BACKGROUND Clinicians need to be supported by universities to use credible and defensible assessment practices during student placements. Web-based delivery of clinical education in student assessment offers professional development regardless of the geographical location of placement sites. OBJECTIVE This paper explores the potential for a video-based constructivist Web-based program to supp...

The growing number of recent publications on pedagogical stylistics indicates that this area is still of much interest to those who invest in the integration of language and literature. However, evidencebased assessments of pedagogical stylistics are still few and depend mostly on teachers’ intuitions. The present study contributes towards filling this gap by examining 28 reflective accounts pr...

Human Resource Development (HRD) is in a state of becoming. With these words, Lee (2001) describes the emerging field of HRD. From its origins (Harbison and Myers, 1964; Nadler, 1970), HRD has evolved as a field of theory and practice with a distinctive tripartite agenda of human betterment, organisational enhancement and societal development. The transformative power of HRD lies in its capacit...