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This transdisciplinary case study explores the transformation of students' professional identities, through authentic learning. It is underpinned by our curiosity about whether transdisciplinary learning based in authentic contexts, can generate new ways of responding to 21st-Century challenges, while simultaneously deepening higher education student learning engagement. It reports on a learning and teaching initiative which connected students from two different faculties in an Australian higher education context. The students—preservice teachers and design students (from the disciplines of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and industrial design)—collaborated in teams to co-design an early childhood learning centre on a local project site. Our data confirmed the students' deep learning engagement through a transformational pedagogy, and the development of their unique professional identities through enhanced opportunities for transdisciplinary collaboration. Findings suggest that this model, while not without its challenges, has considerable merit to offer the field of higher education.
Keywords: authentic learning ; design education ; early childhood education ; learning engagement ; professional identity ; transdisciplinarity ; transformational pedagogy
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