Editorial: Special Issue on Threshold Concepts in Health and Social Care

Abstract

The idea for this special issue on threshold concepts in health and social care originally arose from a conversation between Sarah Barradell, Linda Martindale and Tracy Fortune in Melbourne in 2015. A year later, discussions at the 6th International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference in Halifax, Canada saw the idea take further shape. With more than ten years passing since the term threshold concepts came into being, it seemed fitting to bring together work from scholars in healthcare disciplines and explore how threshold concepts are being put to use, whether this is learning for practice or learning based in practice.