Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education

1. Introduction.- Section I - Conceptualising Interdisciplinarity in Problem-Based Learning.- 2. Problem-based projects, learning and interdisciplinarity in higher education; Annie Aarup Jensen, Ole Ravn and Diana Stentoft.- 3. Trust me, I am the Doctor: Bridging disciplinary education and interdisciplinary professionalism; Patrick Kjærsdam Telléus.- 4. Beyond the two cultures: PBL and transgressive interdisciplinarity in the Techno-Anthropology programme; Maja Hojer Bruun.- 5. Three challenges facing new students in problem-based and interdisciplinary learning; Diana Stentoft.- 6. Supervising the interdisciplinary PBL project: Scaffolding the open-ended space of scientific possibilities; Ole Ravn.- Concluding section one - an outsiders' perspective on conceptualising PBL and interdisciplinarity.- 7. Toward an interdisciplinary learning community of PBL supervisors and students; Lisa Lattuca.- Section II - Practising Interdisciplinarity in Problem-Based Learning.- 8. Opening the PBL Game: Problem construction in interdisciplinary project work in multicultural groups; Kirsten Jæger and Annie Aarup Jensen.- 9. Developing successful group process in interdisciplinary projects; Chunfang Zhou and Lone Krogh.- 10. Students' positioning in transdisciplinary project-based learning; Alice Juel Jacobsen and Tom Børsen.-11. Student interdisciplinary practices in a PBL study environment; Anette Lykke Hindhede, Marie Martinussen and Karin Højbjerg.- Concluding section two - an outsiders' perspective on practicing PBL and interdisciplinarity.- 12. The problem, the group meeting/tutorial, the PBL process and learning; Terry Barrett.- Notes on Contributors.