Abstract: This review provides an understanding of and justification for the transdisciplinary research(TDR) as an action-oriented research approach in higher education that promotes sustainabledevelopment in society. Current studies on TDR show that today more than ever before, there is a shifting landscape of knowledge generation in contemporary societies owing to the nature and number of challenges society is seized with which among others include political strife, hunger, unemployment, diseases, and urban migration. Little attests to the fact that societal problems have become too complex for one point of view as provided for by disciplinary research.............
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