Transdisciplinary Higher Education A Theoretical Basis Revealed in P
This book is not just about thinking or acting in transdisciplinary ways, but about being transdisciplinary. To achieve this requires a deconstruction of our current way of acting within the definition of being that others impose upon us. Transdisciplinar
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Transdisciplinary Higher Education A Theoretical Basis Revealed in Practice
Transdisciplinary Higher Education
Paul Gibbs Editor
Transdisciplinary Higher Education A Theoretical Basis Revealed in Practice
Editor Paul Gibbs Middlesex University London, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-56184-4 ISBN 978-3-319-56185-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56185-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017939866 © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface: Why We Need to Be Transdisciplinary
This book is not just about thinking or acting in transdisciplinary ways, but about being transdisciplinary. To achieve this requires a deconstruction of our current way of acting within the definition of being that others impose upon us. Transdisciplinarity is a phenomenological perspective of reality and its manifestation in the world in which we exist. In this sense, it is a disjunction from the disciplinary, or multi- or interdisciplinary, approaches to our being in the world. I rather think that it is the primordial way of being that shatters both the hegemonies of the knowledge of the powerful and their interpretations of how the world should be seen. It is a reclaiming of that which is essential the being of Being, stripped of limits set by professions, disciplines and morality. Transdisciplinarity is an onto-epistemological approach to the world. It seeks to change and to understand, not to observe and comment, while recognising the value that these activities can bring to the reality of our transdisciplinary world. This is not to argue that the methods of defining our world have not produced important improv
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