Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Transdisciplinary knowledge creation -- Changing and sustaining transdisciplinary practice through research partnerships -- Transdisciplinary problems : the teams addressing them and their support through team coaching -- Transdisciplinarity and nursing education : expanding nursing's professional identity and potential -- Interprofessional education and collaborative practice in health and social care : the need for transdisciplinary mindsets, instruments and mechanisms -- Transdisciplinarity learning in professional practice -- Part II. Integrating transdisciplinarity and translational concepts and methods into graduate education -- Educational knowledge in professional practice : a transdisciplinary approach -- What's actually new about transdisciplinarity? How scholars from applied studies can benefit from cross-disciplinary learning processes on transdisciplinarity -- Part III. Transdisciplinarity as epistemology, ontology or principles of practical judgement -- Transdisciplinarity as translation -- The emergence of the collective mind -- Coda.

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.