What are Threshold Concepts?
Threshold Concepts are the BIG IDEAS that will help students develop a deeper understanding of photography. They are not meant to be instantly understood. Once opened, they introduce students to troublesome knowledge; a new way of seeing the subject they are studying. As students become more confident, working their way across the threshold, they will begin to recognise and understand these big ideas. They will become more useful in helping them think hard about what they do, whether that's looking at other people's photographs or making their own.
Each concept is illustrated below in three ways - a graphic, a number and a one sentence description. Clicking on each of the graphics below takes you to a very detailed exploration of each concept. Some of the language used may be unfamiliar to students. They may need to look up definitions and do a bit of their own exploring to make sense of each concept. We recommend that teachers introduce students to these concepts at various points in a course of study, linked directly to their research and visual experiments. An example is included below.
Obviously, these concepts are only 10 possible ways of thinking about the big ideas in photography. What have we missed?
Each concept is illustrated below in three ways - a graphic, a number and a one sentence description. Clicking on each of the graphics below takes you to a very detailed exploration of each concept. Some of the language used may be unfamiliar to students. They may need to look up definitions and do a bit of their own exploring to make sense of each concept. We recommend that teachers introduce students to these concepts at various points in a course of study, linked directly to their research and visual experiments. An example is included below.
Obviously, these concepts are only 10 possible ways of thinking about the big ideas in photography. What have we missed?
Threshold Concepts in photography
