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Foreword -- About the Authors -- Introduction, Paul Gibbs,  Middlesex University, UK -- SECTION ONE -- Transdisciplinary Knowledge Creation, Sue McGregor, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia -- Changing and sustaining transdisciplinary practice through research partnerships -- Tamara Cumming and Sandie Wong Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia -- Transdisciplinary Problems: the Teams addressing them and their support through Team Coaching, Ron Collins, IBM Global Business Services and Annette Fillery-Travis, Middlesex University -- Transdisciplinarity and Nursing Education: Expanding Nursing’s  Professional Identity and Potential, Sarah Wall University of Alberta, Canada -- Interprofessional education and collaborative practice in health and social care: The need for transdisciplinary mindsets, instruments and mechanisms, Andre Vyt, University College Arteveldehogeschool, Ghent University, Belgium -- Transdisciplinarity  Learning in Professional Practice , Raymond Yeung Hong Kong -- SECTION TWO -- Integrating Transdisciplinarity and Translational Concepts and Methods into Graduate Education, Linda Neuhauser, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Christian Pohl, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences -- Transdisciplinarity and Educational Knowledge in ‘Work Based Learning’ , Carol Costley, Middlesex University, UK -- What's actually new about transdisciplinarity? Or how scholars from applied studies can benefit from cross-disciplinary learning processes on transdisciplinarity, Marianne Penker and Andreas Muhar, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria -- SECTION THREE --  Transdisciplinarity as epistemology, ontology or principles of practical judgement, Paul Gibbs Middlesex University, UK -- Transdisciplinarity as Translation, Kate Maguire, Middlesex University, UK -- The emergence of the collective mind, Valerie A. Brown and John A. Harris Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University -- Coda locating the book in time and complexity , Paul Gibbs, Middlesex University.

This book brings international perspectives to bear on thinking about and through transdisciplinarity on professional development and education. The scope of the book ranges from the idea of transdisciplinarity and its applications in professional practice to considerations of pedagogy and transdisciplinary research. A distinctive feature of the book is its consideration of key issues and concepts in the context of the lived experience of transdisciplinarity. The book effectively demonstrates how a transdisciplinary lens on the world can open one’s eyes to multiple realities and thus suggests how we might better understand the complexities and contradictions of our world. Indeed the chapters carry transdisciplinarity into new fields, on fresh grounds and even move into a post-disciplinary phase. Although transdisciplinarity can be traced back to the early 1970s, it has often been at the margins, and is highly contested as an approach to knowledge creation within academia, and has yet to make a major impact outside the confines of the university. Instead, knowledge creation, recognition and use have been usually been approached from the structured certainty of subject disciplinary knowledge. This book studies higher education and professional identity from the premise that disciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are complementary aspects of a single, more complex whole: routine scholarly work. Can transdisciplinary be taught and if so, how can it be applied to professional practice? The answers assembled here come from a variety of professional backgrounds. Based on insightful personal experience they offer reflective advice on integrating transdisciplinarity into teaching, research and the workplace. In reconceptualizing the practice of transdisciplinarity the book becomes a bold guide to confront the messiness of real world problems. Helga Nowotny, Former ERC President.