ABSTRACT
Appeal A focus on threshold concepts enables academics to explore what is fundamental to a grasp of the subject they teach. They are the “jewels in the curriculum” (Land et al., 2005). A major appeal of threshold concept research lays in its focus on difficulties of mastery in the subject. Typically, it is a form of research which requires a partnership between subject specialists, educational researchers and learners. A particular appeal of threshold concept research is that it treats curriculum inquiry and curriculum design as contemporaneously feeding into each other rather than as sequential activities.
