Transdisciplinary Professional Learning and Practice
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 practic
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Transdisciplinary Professional Learning and Practice
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Editor Paul Gibbs Middlesex University London United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-11589-4 ISBN 978-3-319-11590-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-11590-0 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014952585 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Knowledge creation, recognition and use is widely held to be a key concern, not just of universities but of all work organizations in the age of “the knowledge economy”. The quest to understand the nature of knowledge preoccupied the ancients and in the West the shadow of Aristotle and the all-pervasive narrative of the Enlightenment still looms large over how we construct and evaluate claims to knowledge. Individual knowledge forms the basis for communication of information to others who will then make sense of it in the light of their own personal knowledge. For individual knowledge to be effective at work it must be shared and accepted by others. This may be problematic as individual knowledge is often unrecognized, not only by the organization but often by the individual holding the knowledge; in such cases the knowledge is “tacit”
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