This book presents thinking about and through transdisciplinary and professional development as
an educative process. Rather than focusing on the delineation of the approaches offered an
analysis of these contributions points to commonality in those problems that benefit from a
transdisciplinary perspective. The core elements of transdisciplinarity can lead to what might
be called metanoia - another way of knowing a knowing which is 'beyond that which is creative
and transformative. This poses challenges for the practice of all professionals and is the core
issue that this book addresses. The book brings together the constituting views of
transdisciplinarity or metanoia and focus them on current professional practice. The book is
structured in two parts and five sections. The first part deals with key issues in
Transdisciplinarity its actuality and how it creates knowledge. Section 1 has three original
papers which look at Transdisciplinarity from a different lens. Especially the Islamic voice
has not been heard in this context before. Section 2 considers the knowledge aspect of
Transdisciplinarity and how this might be confronted with existing disciplinary knowledge. Part
2 of the book is directly focused on professionals and their education. The third section
considers research pedagogy and graduate education for the professional. This is followed in
section 4 which offers a discussion on team work. In the final section six chapters present the
transdisciplinary practitioner in different contexts.
