Transdisciplinary Higher Education

Preface: Why We Need to be Transdisciplinary, Paul Gibbs, Professor, Centre for Research and Scholarship Middlesex University.- SECTION 1 Educational Perspectives on Transdisciplinarity.- Chapter 1 Transdisciplinary Pedagogy in Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Learning, Learning Cycles and Habits of Minds, Dr Sue McGregor, Professor Emeritus, Mount St Vincent University, Canada.- Chapter 2 Seeing What is Questionable: Transformative Pedagogies and the Hermeneutic Subject, Dr Jon Nixon, Honorary Professor, Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, The Education University of Hong Kong.- Chapter 3 Transdisciplinarity and the Postgraduate Curriculum, Dr David Scott, Professor UCL/IOE, University of London.- Chapter 4 Transdisciplinary Thinking: Pedagogy for Complexity, Dr Paul Gibbs, Professor, Centre for Research and Scholarship, Middlesex University.- SECTION 2 Contexts for Transdisciplinary Practice.- Chapter 5 A Transdisciplinary Approach to Postgraduate Education: Challenges and Strategies, Barbara Hawkins, Visiting Research Fellow, UWE.- Chapter 6 Transdisciplinary Content Pedagogy in Undergraduate Engineering Education: Being Pulled up Short, Drs H. Greenhalgh-Spencer, K. Frias, A. Ertas, Texas Tech University.- Chapter 7 Integrating Architecture and Crime Science: A Transdisciplinary Challenge, Dr Hervé Borrion, UCL University of London, Dr Daniel Koch, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm.- Chapter 8 Lessons Learned in Transdisciplinary Graduate Education: Claremont Graduate University's Decade-long Experiment, Dr Patricia Easton, Professor, Co-Director of the Transdisciplinary Program, Claremont Graduate University, USA.- Chapter 9 A New Kind of Learning: Somatics, Dance Improvisation and Transdisciplinarity, Dr Vida L. Midgelow, Professor of Dance and Choreographic Practices, Middlesex University.- Chapter 10 Working in Corners, Spaces, Bends and Turns: How Transdisciplinary Approaches and Attitudes Might Challenge and Shape the Practices of

Paul Gibbs is Director of Education Research at the University of Middlesex. He is a professor of the University, founder of the Centre for Education Research and Scholarship, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Open University in Hong Kong and the University of Cyprus. He is an educator and researcher, having taught notions of transdisciplinarity alongside social realism and Heideggerian hermeneutics, and has over thirty successful transdisciplinary professional doctorate students. He has published twenty books on topics ranging from the marketing of higher education to vocationalism and higher education, and has published more than eighty academic articles. His particular approach to transdisciplinarity that informs his work is through the works of Heidegger, neo-Confucian thought and the insights of Basarab Nicolescu. He is also the series editor of SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education and Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives for Springer Academic Press.