Learning from, for, and within society
The complexity of major research questions, such as those examining megatrends like climate change, migration, and urbanization requires universities to take a collaborative and participative approach. In addition to interdisciplinarity, that is the systematic collaboration of different individual subject disciplines, it is becoming increasingly important to also make use of the plurality of knowledge resources such as practical knowledge.
Transdisciplinary learning includes the many attempts to shape research and reflection processes together with society through dialog and to integrate a variety knowledge resources, such as embodied knowledge, professional experience, implicit knowledge and to co-operate with representatives from politics, civil society, business, and culture.
Transdisciplinary learning provides students with the framework to identify and distinguish between knowledge-based resources, consider their use for specific issues, and find ways to integrate these sources of knowledge into their studies and research. At the same time, students learn about their responsibility to communicate with society and to open avenues to allow them to share their own learning experiences and research results with society.
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