Transdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Education and Research (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

The book presents a wide variety of contributions, coming from authors located in the Unites States, various European countries, Mexico and New Zealand. In terms of the content, the chapters may at first glance look to have little in common, as they touch upon a wide range of topics such as the United States petroleum industry, inter-disciplinarity in the academic environmental sector in Mexico, photosynthesis, the philosophy of transdisciplinarity, artful sustainability, indigenous cultures, scientific collaboration, aesthetic experience, the Indian sacred book Atharva-Veda, and decision-making processes. Nevertheless, there is common ground in all of them. The message in almost all chapters is that transdisciplinarity is not a recent invention or a novel concept referring to a new practice. On the contrary, transdisciplinarity basically always existed; as a practice, in science, in art, in indigenous cultures as well as in decision-making process. Transdisciplinary knowledge production is not something that we need to create, but that we rather need to recognize and work with, in knowledgeable and educated ways.

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