Abstract
Professional Practice often involves knowledge purposes and practices that are transdisciplinary (TD). Some universities have theorised these practices and have developed innovative curricula, pedagogies and assessments with TD as a guiding principle. Learning and teaching through a TD lens has enabled educational knowledge to be developed in sites that are not controlled or codified by the academy. Such knowledge is created outside of academia in highly context-bound situations. A TD approach to Professional Practice knowledge is socially accountable and reflexive, involving fields of understanding rather than disciplines, and is increasingly acknowledged as valuable in work settings.
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Costley, C. (2015). Educational Knowledge in Professional Practice: A transdisciplinary approach. In: Gibbs, P. (eds) Transdisciplinary Professional Learning and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11590-0_9
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