ABSTRACT

This book interprets student mobility in European higher education through an active dialogue between disciplines, voices and variables of interest. Interdisciplinarity frames the approach to (physical) student mobility. The main argument is, thus, that the phenomenon of student mobility can be considered in an interdisciplinary sense because it is a complex problem (with multiple facets) and at least two disciplines have studied it or some aspect of it. Stated another way, a mono-disciplinary approach is insufficient to advance our understanding of student mobility as a complex whole. The dialectic interplay between theories, methods and sojourner voices attests to the explanatory power of interdisciplinarity while illustrating how an interdisciplinary understanding of student mobility can be constructed, validated and communicated. The breaking down of disciplinary knowledge into pockets of information is attuned to the integrative habit of mind needed for an interdisciplinary appreciation of student mobility.