Metaphors We Integrate By

This commentary reflects on the role and uses of metaphor in Key Texts on Interdisciplinary Higher Education , edited by Iris van der Tuin. It examines how, within the volume's selected extracts and its introductions and analyses, metaphors shape both student and educator understandings of disciplinary structures, integration and epistemic positioning. It emphasises the importance of critical reflection on the historical and ideological freight that can be carried within established figurative frameworks and reflects on the value of more fluid, malleable and reflexive metaphors that embrace complexity, openness and decolonial potential in interdisciplinary pedagogies.