The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development

Sustainability problems are widely recognised as wicked problems. The scientific expertise needed to deal with multifaceted and complex sustainability problems requires innovation, creative thinking, action-orientated and transdisciplinary approaches. This chapter explores the transdisciplinary appr...

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Autores: Segalàs Coral, Jordi|||0000-0002-9909-120X, Tejedor Papell, Gemma|||0000-0002-5489-1035
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2016
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:2117/82071
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/82071
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Education, Higher
Sustainability
Desenvolupament sostenible
Ensenyament universitari
Interdisciplinarietat
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament sostenible::Educació, valors i sostenibilitat
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spelling The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable developmentSegalàs Coral, Jordi|||0000-0002-9909-120XTejedor Papell, Gemma|||0000-0002-5489-1035Education, HigherSustainabilityDesenvolupament sostenibleEnsenyament universitariInterdisciplinarietatÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament sostenible::Educació, valors i sostenibilitatSustainability problems are widely recognised as wicked problems. The scientific expertise needed to deal with multifaceted and complex sustainability problems requires innovation, creative thinking, action-orientated and transdisciplinary approaches. This chapter explores the transdisciplinary approach with sustainability lenses and highlights the need of transdisciplinary practice as one of the guiding principles of education for sustainability by bringing about mutual learning, collaborative research, and problem solving processes among academia, business, government and civil society. The concept of linking knowledge to action for sustainability requires a very different type of education to generate the knowledge that matters to people’s decisions and education. From analysing the principles and different implications of the transdisciplinary approaches on both sustainability research and education and revising some implementation experiences on transdisciplinary education approaches for sustainability it is concluded, that transdisciplinarity has the potential to break the dominant fragmentary disciplinary thinking. Some of the assessments of transdisciplinary experiences suggest that there is a need to focus on education professionals training and on the revision of the best practices.20162016-01-0120162016-01-26book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/82071reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/820712026-05-27T15:37:01Z
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title The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development
spellingShingle The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development
Segalàs Coral, Jordi|||0000-0002-9909-120X
Education, Higher
Sustainability
Desenvolupament sostenible
Ensenyament universitari
Interdisciplinarietat
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament sostenible::Educació, valors i sostenibilitat
title_short The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development
title_full The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development
title_fullStr The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development
title_full_unstemmed The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development
title_sort The role of transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Segalàs Coral, Jordi|||0000-0002-9909-120X
Tejedor Papell, Gemma|||0000-0002-5489-1035
author Segalàs Coral, Jordi|||0000-0002-9909-120X
author_facet Segalàs Coral, Jordi|||0000-0002-9909-120X
Tejedor Papell, Gemma|||0000-0002-5489-1035
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author2 Tejedor Papell, Gemma|||0000-0002-5489-1035
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Education, Higher
Sustainability
Desenvolupament sostenible
Ensenyament universitari
Interdisciplinarietat
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament sostenible::Educació, valors i sostenibilitat
topic Education, Higher
Sustainability
Desenvolupament sostenible
Ensenyament universitari
Interdisciplinarietat
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament sostenible::Educació, valors i sostenibilitat
description Sustainability problems are widely recognised as wicked problems. The scientific expertise needed to deal with multifaceted and complex sustainability problems requires innovation, creative thinking, action-orientated and transdisciplinary approaches. This chapter explores the transdisciplinary approach with sustainability lenses and highlights the need of transdisciplinary practice as one of the guiding principles of education for sustainability by bringing about mutual learning, collaborative research, and problem solving processes among academia, business, government and civil society. The concept of linking knowledge to action for sustainability requires a very different type of education to generate the knowledge that matters to people’s decisions and education. From analysing the principles and different implications of the transdisciplinary approaches on both sustainability research and education and revising some implementation experiences on transdisciplinary education approaches for sustainability it is concluded, that transdisciplinarity has the potential to break the dominant fragmentary disciplinary thinking. Some of the assessments of transdisciplinary experiences suggest that there is a need to focus on education professionals training and on the revision of the best practices.
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