Transdisciplinarity in higher education for sustainability: how discourses are approached in engineering education

Sustainability issues, as unwanted results of not fully respecting natural cycles, are widely recognized as wicked problems, which should not be thought of as problems to be solved, but rather as “conditions” to be managed, as if they were a chronic disease (Seager et al., 2011). There exists a gene...

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Autores: Tejedor Papell, Gemma|||0000-0002-5489-1035, Segalàs Coral, Jordi|||0000-0002-9909-120X, Rosas Casals, Martí|||0000-0002-5243-2601
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/111438
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/111438
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.085
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sustainability
Engineering--Study and teaching
Higher education
Desenvolupament sostenible
Enginyeria -- Ensenyament
Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament sostenible
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Sumario:Sustainability issues, as unwanted results of not fully respecting natural cycles, are widely recognized as wicked problems, which should not be thought of as problems to be solved, but rather as “conditions” to be managed, as if they were a chronic disease (Seager et al., 2011). There exists a general agreement on the need to reform scientific expertise by developing new ways of knowledge production and decision-making able to cope with the challenges sustainability poses. In this sense, transdisciplinary aspects of sustainability are acknowledged as a transformational stream of sustainability science