Caroline Baillie's scientific contributions

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... In addition to troublesome knowledge, there are troublesome attitudes to, and emotions associated with learning during doctoral candidature (Buirski 2020). Baillie and Johnson (2008), by way of example, introduce the idea that in a particular subject at the undergraduate level, not only are threshold concepts troublesome because they involve a shift in a learner's thinking, but there also are troublesome emotional aspects to learning and mastering attitudinal threshold concepts. Such emotions concern fears arising from uncertainty, ambiguity and lack of self-confidence. ...