Summary
Grand societal challenges ask for engineers, designers and social scientists who can work with stakeholders in a transdisciplinary and responsible manner. Challenge-based education is promoted as a means to prepare students for dealing with societal challenges. However, this is a relatively new educational approach and its potential for transdisciplinary learning and societal transformation is underdeveloped. How can students with different disciplinary backgrounds effectively co-learn with stakeholders from science, industry, government and civil society? And how can students and stakeholders be supported to become accomplished boundary-crossers and responsible change-makers? Extensive scaffolding is required and currently available educational tools are not sufficient for that. In this project an evidence-informed educational toolbox is developed, consisting of three interrelated toolsets for scaffolding transdisciplinary learning in challenge-based education. These toolsets, based on insights from philosophy of science, industrial design engineering, and science & technology studies, enable teachers to support students and stakeholders to acquire transdisciplinary modeling, designing and futuring competencies.
Partners
This project is funded by NRO – Comenius senior fellowship
The project is carried out in collaboration with UT colleagues Mieke Boon, Cristina Zaga and Robert-Jan den Haan.
Project duration: 1 July 2022 – 31 March 2026
Who's working in this project
Contact: Klaasjan Visscher
