Threshold Concepts and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

What I have learnt about Threshold Concepts is that is a new platform or a passage to practice the understanding of being information literate and to understand the process to acquire information.

Threshold concepts characteristics are:

Transformative - these concepts once learned by the learner open up new ways of understanding the world and questioning of former ways of thinking.

Integrative- learners are able to integrate threshold concepts into other contexts and related areas.

Irreversible - threshold concepts once learned are difficult to unlearn.

Bounded - threshold concepts are contextual they are learned within a particular context and often along with and in addition to other threshold concepts.

Troublesome - threshold concepts can be potentially be troublesome to the learner.

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