ENV221H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Basarab Nicolescu, Transdisciplinarity, Association Of Community Organizations For Reform Now
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Disciplinary (cid:0) specialization in one area (ex: picking subject posts on acorn) Multidisciplinary (cid:0) putting many disciplines together (ex: looking at environmental issues from an ethical, poli-sci, and scientific perspective) (cid:0) course title: multidisciplinary perspectives on environment ) Interdisciplinary (cid:0) coordination by a higher level concept; transferring info between disciplines (cid:0) env222: interdisciplinary perspectives on environment. David orr: education by disciplines is whack and is discouraged (cid:0) discusses this further in what is education for? . Goal of the course: move from disciplinary to higher level thinking. Nature vs. culture + society (cid:0) human environment (i. e. the spot where all these disciplines intertwine is the human environment, making it an interdisciplinary pursuit) Recognition of different levels of reality (cid:0) inherent in transdisciplinarity. Transdisciplinarity aims to open all disciplines to that which they share rather than master individual disciplines. No single culture is privileged over any other culture. Education should teach context and concrete global approaches and not just theory.
