Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity And Transdisciplinarity

Author : Bianca Vienni-Baptista,Julie Thompson Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000570588

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Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity by Bianca Vienni-Baptista,Julie Thompson Klein Pdf

Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity fills a gap in the current literature by systematizing and comparing a wide international scope of case studies illustrating varied ways of institutionalizing theory and practice. This collection comprises three parts. After an introduction of overall themes, Part I presents case studies on institutionalizing. Part II focuses on transdisciplinary examples, while Part III includes cross-cutting themes, such as funding, evaluation, and intersections between epistemic cultures. With expert contributions from authors representing projects and programs in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, Russia and South Caucuses, Latin and North America, this book brings together comparative perspectives on theory and practice, while also describing strategies and models of change. Each chapter identifies dimensions inherent in fostering effective and sustainable practices. Together they advance both analysis and action-related challenges. The proposed conceptual framework that emerges supports innovative practices that are alternatives to dominant academic cultures and approaches in pertinent disciplines, fields, professionals, and members of government, industry, and communities. Applying a comparative perspective throughout, the contributors reflect on aspects of institutionalizing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as well as insights applicable to further contexts. This innovative volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, practitioners, and members of organizations promoting and facilitating interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Author : Thorsten Philipp,Tobias Schmohl
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783732863471

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Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning by Thorsten Philipp,Tobias Schmohl Pdf

What is transdisciplinarity - and what are its methods? How does a living lab work? What is the purpose of citizen science, student-organized teaching and cooperative education? This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education. Transdisciplinary learning turns out to be a comprehensive innovation process in response to the major global challenges such as climate change, urbanization or migration. A reference work for students, lecturers, scientists, and anyone wanting to understand the profound changes in higher education.

Author : Bianca Vienni-Baptista,Isabel Fletcher,Catherine Lyall
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781529225747

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Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research by Bianca Vienni-Baptista,Isabel Fletcher,Catherine Lyall Pdf

Introduction chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This groundbreaking reader is designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in research. Edited by experienced researchers from a range of different fields, it paves the way for future scholarship and effective research collaborations across disciplines. Chapters offer extracts from key academic texts on topics such as the design, funding, evaluation and communication of research, providing those new to the field with a thorough grounding. They highlight examples of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary triumphs - and challenges. Concluding each chapter is a commentary provided by practitioners from diverse backgrounds, many of whom are themselves developing new approaches to inter- and transdisciplinarity. The book is:* the first ever comprehensive reader for interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity;* essential reading for those seeking to become effective collaborative researchers;* complete with concise introductions, extracts, commentary and further reading in each chapter.This is a much-needed primer that improves our understanding of the characteristics of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, unlocking their exciting potential in research and teaching within and beyond academia.

Author : Bianca Vienni-Baptista,Isabel Fletcher,Catherine Lyall
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781529225730

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Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research by Bianca Vienni-Baptista,Isabel Fletcher,Catherine Lyall Pdf

Introduction chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This groundbreaking reader is designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in research. Edited by experienced researchers from a range of different fields, it paves the way for future scholarship and effective research collaborations across disciplines. Chapters offer extracts from key academic texts on topics such as the design, funding, evaluation and communication of research, providing those new to the field with a thorough grounding. They highlight examples of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary triumphs - and challenges. Concluding each chapter is a commentary provided by practitioners from diverse backgrounds, many of whom are themselves developing new approaches to inter- and transdisciplinarity. The book is:* the first ever comprehensive reader for interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity;* essential reading for those seeking to become effective collaborative researchers;* complete with concise introductions, extracts, commentary and further reading in each chapter.This is a much-needed primer that improves our understanding of the characteristics of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, unlocking their exciting potential in research and teaching within and beyond academia.

Author : Bianca Vienni-Baptista,Merel van Goch,Rianne van Lambalgen,Katrine Ellemose Lindvig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040019122

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Interdisciplinary Practices in Higher Education by Bianca Vienni-Baptista,Merel van Goch,Rianne van Lambalgen,Katrine Ellemose Lindvig Pdf

Drawing on eight crowdsourced cases, Interdisciplinary Practices in Higher Education demonstrates the range and diversity in approaches to teaching, learning and collaborating across disciplinary and institutional borders. The cases explore everyday challenges within interdisciplinary higher education experiences such as designing study programmes, planning curricula, ensuring sufficient assessment and feedback for diverse groups of students and coordinating and aligning expectations with external stakeholders. Each case is analysed by three leading experts, providing solutions and practical guidance to support practice. Chapters explore the challenges of: Breadth versus depth in interdisciplinary teaching and learning activities Disciplinary identities in interdisciplinary collaborations The governance and administration of interdisciplinary courses and study programmes Career trajectories for interdisciplinary researchers Aligning expectations with stakeholders in transdisciplinary endeavours A highly practical, solution-based book, this is an essential read for lecturers, students, researchers and others who might wish to embark on an interdisciplinary path or develop future border-crossing practices within their higher education institutions.

Author : Tom Dedeurwaerdere
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003827580

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Transdisciplinary Research, Sustainability, and Social Transformation by Tom Dedeurwaerdere Pdf

This book addresses the gap in the existing literature on the governance of transdisciplinary research partnerships in transformational sustainability research by exploring the governance of knowledge co-production in coupled socio-ecological system dynamics. Multiple social and ecological crises raise new cross-sectoral research questions that call for an evolution in contemporary science in the direction of society-wide knowledge co-production on sustainability transformations of interdependent social and ecological systems. This book proposes a new approach to this based on enabling capacities for collaboration among scientific researchers and societal actors with diverse values, perspectives, and research interests. By drawing upon the thriving literature on the conditions for community and multistakeholder-driven collective action, the analysis sheds new light on the governance arrangements for organizing so-called transdisciplinary research partnerships for sustainability. This book identifies robust conditions that lead to effective collaborative research with societal actors and digs deeper into capacity building for partnership research through fostering social learning on sustainability values among research partners and organizing training and knowledge exchange at institutions of higher education. The book proposes solutions for addressing collective action challenges in transdisciplinary partnerships in an accessible and broadly interdisciplinary manner to a large audience of sustainability scholars and practitioners. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sustainable development, social ecological transitions, and science policy, while also being a useful resource for engineers, QSE managers, and policymakers.

Author : J. Thompson Klein,W. Grossenbacher-Mansuy,R. Häberli,A. Bill,R.W. Scholz,M. Welti
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783034884198

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Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society by J. Thompson Klein,W. Grossenbacher-Mansuy,R. Häberli,A. Bill,R.W. Scholz,M. Welti Pdf

What kind of science do we need today and tomorrow? In a game that knows no boundaries, a game that contaminates science, democracy and the market economy, how can we distinguish true needs from simple of fashion? How can we distinguish between necessity and fancy? whims How can we differentiate conviction from opinion? What is the meaning of this all? Where is the civilizing project? Where is the universal outlook of the minds that might be capable of counteracting the global reach of the market? Where is the common ground that links each of us to the other? We need the kind of science that can live up to this need for univer sality, the kind of science that can answer these questions. We need a new kind of knowledge, a new awareness that can bring about the creative destruction of certainties. Old ideas, dogmas, and out-dated paradigms must be destroyed in order to build new knowledge of a type that is more socially robust, more scientifically reliable, stable and above all better able to express our needs, values and dreams. What is more, this new kind of knowledge, which will be challenged in turn by ideas yet to come, will prove its true worth by demonstrating its capacity to dialogue with these ideas and grow with them.

Author : Roderick J. Lawrence
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802207835

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Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives by Roderick J. Lawrence Pdf

This expansive Handbook guides readers through a multi-layered landscape of the interpretations and uses of transdisciplinary thinking and practices worldwide. It advances understanding of the strengths and limits of transdisciplinary research in the context of societal power relations, institutional structures and social inequalities. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Margaret A. Somerville,David Rapport
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773525459

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Transdisciplinarity by Margaret A. Somerville,David Rapport Pdf

This book addresses the need for transdisciplinarity, a new and important approach to solution of global problems.

Author : M. Granger Morgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000810936

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Interdisciplinary Research on Climate and Energy Decision Making by M. Granger Morgan Pdf

This book explores the role and importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing key issues in climate and energy decision making. For over 30 years, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students anchored at Carnegie Mellon University, joined by investigators and students from a number of other collaborating institutions across North America, Europe, and Australia, have worked together to better understand the global changes that are being caused by both human activities and natural causes. This book tells the story of their successful interdisciplinary work. With each chapter written in the first person, the authors have three key objectives: (1) to document and provide an accessible account of how they have framed and addressed a range of the key problems that are posed by the human dimensions of global change; (2) to illustrate how investigators and graduate students have worked together productively across different disciplines and locations on common problems; and (3) to encourage funders and scholars across the world to undertake similar large- scale interdisciplinary research activities to meet the world’s largest challenges. Exploring topics such as energy efficiency, public health, and climate adaptation, and with a final chapter dedicated to lessons learned, this innovative volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, energy transitions and environmental studies more broadly.

Author : Elizabeth A. Lange
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000821437

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Transformative Sustainability Education by Elizabeth A. Lange Pdf

This book lays out the principles and practices of transformative sustainability education using a relational way of thinking and being. Elizabeth A. Lange advocates for a new approach to environmental and sustainability education, that of rethinking the Western way of knowing and being and engendering a frank discussion about the societal elements that are generating climate, environmental, economic, and social issues. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous and life-giving cultures, the book covers educational theory, transformation stories of adult learners, social and economic critique, and visions of changemakers. Each chapter also has a strong pedagogical element, with entry points for learners and embodied practices and examples of taking action at micro/meso/macro levels woven throughout. Overall, this book enacts a relational approach to transformative sustainability education that draws from post humanist theory, process thought, relational ontology, decolonization theory, Indigenous philosophy, and a spirituality that builds a sense of sacred towards the living world. Written in an imaginative, storytelling manner, this book will be a great resource for formal and nonformal environmental and sustainability educators.

Author : Kyungeun Sung,Patrick Isherwood,Richie Moalosi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040014547

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Research Journeys to Net Zero by Kyungeun Sung,Patrick Isherwood,Richie Moalosi Pdf

This book provides useful insight into how academics from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, such as science, engineering, technology, social science, policy, design, architecture, built environment, business, and management, have been conducting research into how to realise net zero emissions to address climate change. This book explores the ways in which countries around the world have pledged to achieve net zero emissions through decarbonisation processes. It presents the highest calibre research and impact activities carried out in the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, Asia, and Africa. Such activities include conceptualisation, opportunity identification, specific case studies, demonstration of proof of concepts, provision of evidence, education of the general public, and knowledge transfer to companies. Further to this, the chapters also bring to light personal career journeys to net zero by current and future international research leaders. From this book, readers will gain a full understanding of net zero research via multiple disciplinary pathways, be inspired by personal accounts, and will learn key methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative approaches. The diversity of authors and topics make the book widely applicable to a range of fields, and it will be of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners, and decision makers working towards the goals of net zero and decarbonisation.

Author : Vandana Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781003835059

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Teaching Climate Change by Vandana Singh Pdf

Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice shows educators how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective and in a transdisciplinary way, drawing on examples from the author's own classroom. The book sets out a radical vision for climate pedagogy, introducing an innovative framework in which the scientific essentials of climate change are scaffolded via three transdisciplinary meta-concepts: Balance/Imbalance, Critical Thresholds and Complex Interconnections. Author Vandana Singh grounds this theory in practice, drawing on examples from her own classroom to provide implementable ideas for educators, and to demonstrate how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective in a transdisciplinary way. The book also explores the barriers to effective climate education at a macro level, focusing on issues such as climate misinformation/misconception, the exclusion of social and ethical concerns and a focus on technofixes. Singh uses this information to identify four key dimensions for an effective climate pedagogy, in which issues of justice are central: scientific-technological, the transdisciplinary, the epistemological and the psychosocial. This approach is broad and flexible enough to be adapted to different classrooms and contexts. Bridging the social and natural sciences, this book will be an essential resource for all climate change educators practicing in both formal and informal settings, as well as for community climate activists.

Author : Amatoritsero Ede,Sandra Lee Kleppe,Angela Sorby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000998474

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Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis by Amatoritsero Ede,Sandra Lee Kleppe,Angela Sorby Pdf

This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analyzing, and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays, providing a diversity of approaches and voices that will be useful in the classroom and beyond. The chapters in this edited collection explore how poetry can make readers climate-ready and climate-responsive through creativity, empathy, and empowerment. The book encompasses work from or about Oceania, Africa, Europe, North America, Asia, and Antarctica, integrating poetry into discussions of specific local and global issues, including the value of Indigenous responses to climate change; the dynamics of climate migration; the shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human world; the ecopoetics of the prison-industrial complex; and the ongoing environmental effects of colonialism, racism, and sexism. With numerous examples of how poetry reading, teaching, and learning can enhance or modify mindsets, the book focuses on offering creative, practical approaches and tools that educators can implement into their teaching and equipping them with the theoretical knowledge to support these. This volume will appeal to educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental, sustainability, and development topics, particularly from a humanities-led perspective.

Author : Salvatore Giuffrida
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031537097

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Science of Valuations by Salvatore Giuffrida Pdf