Teaching
Our teaching is two-fold: students learn in a transdisciplinary setting and learn about transdisciplinarity. This means learning about the methods and assumptions that researchers take on when carrying out transdisciplinary research.
We aspire to create an open setting where students are free to voice their ideas, and encourage them to take the freedom and responsability to engage directly with stakeholders. Members of the TdLab see themselves more as coaches than lecturers and believe that students don’t learn as much if they are always relient on our input. We want them to take initatives, and learn directly from real-world problems, in groups and through stakeholder interaction.
We aim to equip students with the six following skills:
- Communicating values
- Reflecting about self and others
- Applying concepts in the real-world
- Framing complex problems with others
- Researching in and with the real-world
- Imagining solutions and their consequences
For a detailed discussion, please refer to
- Pohl, C., Krütli, P. & Stauffacher, M. (2018). Teaching Transdisciplinarity Appropriately for Students’ Education Level. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 27(2): 250-252. doi: external page10.14512/gaia.27.2.14
- Pearce, B., Adler, C., Senn, L., Krütli, P., Stauffacher, M., Pohl, C. (2018). Making the link between transdisciplinary learning and research (Chapter 12) in Fam, D., Neuhauser, L., Gibbs, P. (eds), The art of collaborative research and collective learning: Transdisciplinary theory, practice & education, London: Springer (pp 167-183). doi: external page10.1007/978-3-319-93743-4_12