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Inter-disciplinary innovations & transformative learning. Your experience …. Is this inter-disciplinary? Developing a Local Environmental Action Plan & SDF. Research into development planning & social services Sociology, Law & Economics Depts. Research into waste & water
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Is this inter-disciplinary?Developing a Local Environmental Action Plan & SDF Research into development planning & social services Sociology, Law & Economics Depts Research into waste & water management Issues, approaches & options Environmental Science & WRI Community education & Training of municipal officials Education Department Biodiversity assessments & agricultural production / land use planning Agricultural Science, Environmental Science
Inter-disciplinarity • … more than adding insights from different disciplines • … skills to identify, select, translate, integrate knowledge from different disciplines into a coherent framework Integration of knowledge at the level of developing new theoretical and methodological perspectives … the most challenging dimension of re-orienting curriculum practices, pedagogy and research Does it allow for transformative learning?
Is this transformative learning?
Planning your innovations … • Can you ‘try out’ or further develop inter-disciplinary approaches that also enable transformative learning? • How can you support others at your university to experiment with these approaches?