Beschreibung
This book develops a widely based transdisciplinary understanding of the issues faced by higher education institutions and those who work within and with these institutions to educate professionals. It incorporates international contributions from organisational theory, anthropologists, historians, psychologists, social sciences, philosophers and practitioners to create a volume that will make an important and distinct contribution to the literature on higher education and professional practice. This book intends to lift the debate and explore how we perceive transdisciplinarity, as it might shape the practices of those involved in higher education in terms of knowledge generation, teaching and learning policy, and its temporal horizons and content. This is the first time a comprehensive and serious attempt has been made to understand, reflect and comment on the issues of transdisciplinary practice in higher education. It brings together transdisciplinarity theorists and practitioners from across the world to answer the issues facing higher education and its global communities.
Autorenporträt
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.
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