Offers a contemporary of our understanding and practice of interdisciplinary higher education. This book considers a range of theoretical perspectives on interdisciplinarity: the nature of disciplines, complexity, leadership, group working, and academic development.

List of Contributors. Introduction. Chapter 1 Interdisciplinary higher education. Chapter 2 Complexity and mastery in shaping interdisciplinarity. Chapter 3 Interdisciplinary leadership and learning. Chapter 4 Working successfully in university interdisciplinary teams: Learning from embedded intergroup relations theory. Chapter 5 What kind of interdisciplinary space is academic development?. Vignette 1 (Inter)disciplinary Dublin descriptors? Implementation of the Bologna Process in a Dutch University. Vignette 2 Facing the realities of implementing an interdisciplinary approach in institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. Vignette 3 Interdisciplinary survival: The case of Murdoch University. Vignette 4 Explicating interdisciplinarity in a postgraduate materials conservation programme. Vignette 5 The getting of interdisciplinarity: The everyday practice of environmental curriculum design. Vignette 6 Pluridisciplinary learning and assessment: Reflections on practice. Vignette 7 Many disciplines – common approach: experiences in the development and delivery of an interprofessional health subject. Vignette 8 Revisiting higher education's heartland: (Inter)disciplinary ways of knowing and doing for sustainability education. Vignette 9 Interdisciplinary scholarship for novice students. Vignette 10 The role of inter-faculty relationships in special project collaborations: A distinctly New Zealand experience. Vignette 11 Developing students' academic skills: An interdisciplinary approach. Vignette 12 Structuring interdisciplinary collaboration to develop research students’ skills for publishing research internationally: Lessons from implementation. Vignette 13 Promoting interdisciplinary practices through ePortfolios. References. Contributors. International Perspectives on Higher Education Research. International Perspectives on Higher Education Research. Copyright page.

This is a collection of great richness and diversity which deserves a wide readership and consideration. The contribution of international colleagues underscores the rationale of the book, that interdisciplinarity has never been as central as it now is in discussions of the structures of higher education necessary in the new century. (Professor Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne)