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Identifying threshold concepts and proposing strategies to support doctoral candidates

Pages 293-304 | Published online: 24 Jul 2009

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Jeffrey M. Keefer. (2015) Experiencing doctoral liminality as a conceptual threshold and how supervisors can use it. Innovations in Education and Teaching International 52:1, pages 17-28.
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