Threshold practices: Becoming a student through academic literacies

London Review of Education

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-192

  Gourlay, Lesley ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic literacies; Communities of practice; Liminality; Literacy practices; The first year; Threshold concepts; Transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349121436     PISSN: 14748460     EISSN: 14748479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14748460903003626     Document Type: Article

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