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  • Applying threshold concepts theory to an unsettled field: an exploratory study in criminal justice education

    Author(s)
    Wimshurst, Kerry
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Wimshurst, Kerry J.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Criminal justice education is a relatively new program in higher education in many countries, and its curriculum and parameters remain unsettled. An exploratory study investigated whether threshold concepts theory provided a useful lens by which to explore student understandings of this multidisciplinary field. Eight highperforming final-year students in a Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice degree were invited to identify and reflect on one powerful concept that helped them make sense of the field. Analysis indicated three subgroups with different conceptual encounters. There was evidence that multidisciplinary ...
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    Criminal justice education is a relatively new program in higher education in many countries, and its curriculum and parameters remain unsettled. An exploratory study investigated whether threshold concepts theory provided a useful lens by which to explore student understandings of this multidisciplinary field. Eight highperforming final-year students in a Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice degree were invited to identify and reflect on one powerful concept that helped them make sense of the field. Analysis indicated three subgroups with different conceptual encounters. There was evidence that multidisciplinary professional fields are characterised by bounded and unbounded generic thresholds. While the article comments on current criminal justice education, it raises concerns for multidisciplinarity and threshold concepts research more broadly.
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    Journal Title
    Studies in Higher Education
    Volume
    36
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070903556063
    Subject
    Criminology not elsewhere classified
    Education Systems
    Specialist Studies in Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/39887
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