Visit the exotic birthplaces of transdisciplinarity

Burt, Jane C; Cockburn, Jessica J; Fox, Helen E; Copteros, Athina

Title: Visit the exotic birthplaces of transdisciplinarity
Creator: Burt, Jane C
Creator: Cockburn, Jessica J
Creator: Fox, Helen E
Creator: Copteros, Athina
Date Issued: 2016
Date: 2016
Type: text
Type: book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68442
Identifier: vital:29256
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1511.7048
Description: Publisher version
Description: Preface: Why a new approach to science? The world we live in is very different to the world of one hundred years ago. The world has never been so populated by humans and never before have the spe-cies ‘human’ influenced and manipulated the natural world in the way in which we do now. Academics are calling it the age of the Anthropocene. In the age of the Anthropocene we face different challenges to what hu- mans faced centuries ago. As we find ourselves in this new age we have had to not only question ‘what we know’ but also ‘how we know’ and whether the ‘how we know’ is the right kind of ‘how’ for the problems that we face today. This has led to a questioning of the way in which we generate knowledge and the way in which this knowledge is used. This critique is not aimed at all knowledge generation it is mostly a frustration that has arisen out of the physical and biological sciences with the realisation that doing good science is just not enough to bring about meaningful change in the world. Trans-disciplinary scientists and practitioners have begun this journey in search of a new kind of science - A science in service of society! This tourist trip will re- trace the few first steps of these emerging ideas so that we can understand where these new ideas have come from and how they may influence our own research.
Description: This document was developed for a postgraduate course on Transdisciplinary research held at Rhodes University. It explores three key theoretical approaches to transdisciplinarity in relation to the question 'Why TD?'.
Format: 72 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: ResearchGate
Language: English
Relation: Burt, J., Cockburn, J., Fox, H. and Copteros, A. (2016) Visit the exotic birthplaces of Transdisciplinarity, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1511.7048
Relation: volume number 1 39 2016
Rights: Copyright held by the authors
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License

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