Interdisciplinarity in the University Colleges: Versions of interprofessional responsibility

The chapter argues that the concept of interdisciplinarity has been replaced by the concept of interprofessionalism, as a purposeful going across and beyond professional and disciplinary boundaries, in the University Colleges in Denmark, since the beginning of the millennial. The chapter explores interprofessionalism as a material-discursive phenomenon and proposes an analytical strategy for unfolding how different versions of the same educational phenomenon emerge. The analysis unfolds how interprofessionalism emerges as two different versions of itself in interprofessional modules. Versions that enact different appropriate ways of practicing an interprofessional responsibility for the future professionals. The versions of interprofessionalism guides and are suggestive of the responsibilities future professionals should recognise as theirs, for them to be recognised by others, as appropriate interprofessional practitioners. The chapter concludes by discussing the complex forms of responsibility that these coexisting versions of interprofessionalism implies.