Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity

Collaboration across Cultures and Communities
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-65435-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies

Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity fills a gap in the current literature by systematizing and comparing a wide international scope of case studies illustrating varied ways of institutionalizing theory and practice.

This collection comprises three parts. After an introduction of overall themes, Part I presents case studies on institutionalizing. Part II focuses on transdisciplinary examples, while Part III includes cross-cutting themes, such as funding, evaluation, and intersections between epistemic cultures. With expert contributions from authors representing projects and programs in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, Russia and South Caucuses, Latin and North America, this book brings together comparative perspectives on theory and practice, while also describing strategies and models of change. Each chapter identifies dimensions inherent in fostering effective and sustainable practices. Together they advance both analysis and action-related challenges. The proposed conceptual framework that emerges supports innovative practices that are alternatives to dominant academic cultures and approaches in pertinent disciplines, fields, professionals, and members of government, industry, and communities.

Applying a comparative perspective throughout, the contributors reflect on aspects of institutionalizing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as well as insights applicable to further contexts. This innovative volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, practitioners, and members of organizations promoting and facilitating interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vienni-Baptista, Bianca

Thompson Klein, Julie

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Christian Pohl

1. Introduction: Institutionalizing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: Cultures and communities, timeframes and spaces
Julie Thompson Klein, Bianca Vienni Baptista and Danilo Streck

Part I: Interdisciplinary institutional spaces and timeframes

2. Excellence with Impact: Why UK research policy discourages "Transdisciplinarity"
Catherine Lyall
3. Taking inter- and trans-disciplinarity to eye-level with scientific disciplines: Teaching and learning in the Complementary Studies at Leuphana College in Lüneburg, Germany
Maik Adomßent
4. Interdisciplinary projects and science policies in Mexico: Divergences and convergences
Juan Carlos Villa-Soto, Mónica Ribeiro Palacios and Norma Blazquez Graf
5. A long and winding road towards institutionalizing interdisciplinarity: Lessons from environmental and sustainability science programs in Brazil
Gabriela Litre, Diego Pereira Lindoso and Marcel Bursztyn
6. Interdisciplinary education and research in North America
Karri A. Holley and Rick Szostak
Part II: Transdisciplinary institutional spaces and timeframes
7. The rise of transdisciplinary ‘boundary organisations’ within the Australian Tertiary Education sector: Beyond the disciplined university
Isabel Sebastian, Dena Fam and Jason Prior
8. A contextual approach to institutional change: Transdisciplinarity in Ghanaian higher education
Beatrice Akua-Sakyiwah
9. Development of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in modern Russian science and higher education
Vladimir Mokiy and Tatyana Lukyanova
10. "Leaping over" disciplines: Historical context and future potential for inter- and trans-disciplinarity in Chinese higher education
BinBin J. Pearce
11. Challenges and opportunities for implementing Transdisciplinary case study approaches in Post-Soviet academic systems: Experiences from Armenia and Georgia
Tigran Keryan, Andreas Muhar, Tamara Mitrofanenko, Kristine Tanajyan and Lela Khartishvili
12. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature: A Japanese center for inter- and tr

Über Autor(innen)

Bianca Vienni Baptista, Senior Researcher at the Transdisciplinarity Lab of the Department of Environmental Systems Science (USYS-TdLab), ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities Emerita at Wayne State University and International Research Affiliate in the Transdisciplinarity Lab at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland.