Working with Interdisciplinarity in Knowledge Communities

Karina M. Smed is Associate Professor, PhD, at Aalborg University and a member of the Demos research group. Her work is focused on cultural and social changes in the contexts of tourism and consumption. Working with cultural processes and being in international professional contexts, PBL and interdisciplinarity have also become a focal point. Ana María Macías García is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalborg University and member of Demos. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach bridging linguistics and social studies. She works on migration, agency, power relations, and language learning, with a particular interest in how people position themselves in cultural contexts, negotiate identities and create meaning in unequal settings. Kirsten Jæger, Associate Professor, PhD, at Aalborg University, is a member of the university’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Problem-Based Learning, where she specialises in interdisciplinary collaboration. As an educational researcher, she also investigates European higher education policy, including the importance of interdisciplinarity.

• Interdisciplinary contestations: Tracing interdisciplinarity’s connections to democratization of knowledge communities, Macias García, A. M., Jæger, K. & Smed, K. M. (eds.) - Chapter 1: Initiating Interdisciplinary Research towards Green Energy Transition – Experiences from the Humanities and Social Sciences, Andersen, P. V. K., Horsbøl, A. & Pedersen, A. G. J. - Chapter 2: Learning Interdisciplinarity - Students’ Reflections on Interdisciplinarity in the Context of PBL Project Work, Smed, K. M. & Pedersen, A. G. J. - Chapter 3: Embracing the Endless Journey: Complex Systems, Agency, and Positioning in Learning Contexts, Macias García, A. M. - Chapter 4: The Role of Higher Education Systems and Policymakers in the Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the European Union from a Gender Perspective, Calvo, A. & Perez Tirado, I. - Chapter 5: Educational Interdisciplinary in Cultural Mediation Contexts: Fostering Cultural Democracy at the National Centre of Contemporary Art in Chile, Salinas, B., Riffo-Valdebenito, S., Escobar, X. - Chapter 6: The Status of Interdisciplinarity in the Project Assignment – and its Positioning of Pupils, Teachers, and School Subjects, Rasmussen, A. - Chapter 7: Higher Education Interdisciplinarity – Symmetry across Policy Levels Programme, Jæger, K. - Chapter 8: Banal Cosmopolitanism? An Inquiry into the (de)Construction of the Nation within Critical Intercultural Communication, 1990-2020, Tange, H. - Key themes, contributions and future perspectives on interdisciplinarity as a contribution to democratic knowledge communities, Macias García, A. M., Jæger, K. & Smed, K. M. (eds.)