Summary
To address grand societal challenges joint transdisciplinary efforts of scientists, engineers, governments, companies, and citizens are required. However, fruitful collaboration between these groups is challenging, because of differences in background, interests and values or conflicting perspectives. Higher education can play a key role in the development of transdisciplinary competencies, but transdisciplinary learning finds its way into curricula only with difficulty. How to successfully design and implement transdisciplinary education is challenging.
There are three major questions related to realizing transdisciplinary educational configurations:
- How to enable co-learning among students, teachers, and stakeholders in a leveled learning environment?
- How to scaffold transdisciplinary learning of all learners?
- How to embed transdisciplinary education sustainably at curricular and organizational level.
Focusing on these three questions, a consortium of eleven Dutch higher education institutions engages in educational design research, in which teachers and researchers collaborate to develop, implement and test design principles for transdisciplinary education.
Partners
This project is funded by NRO (within the programme Significant Questions in Higher Education).
This project is led by Saxion and UT and carried out by a consortium of eight research universities (UT., TU/e, TUD, UvA, VU, WUR, UM, UU) and three universities of applied sciences (Saxion, NHL Stenden, HAN).
Project website: https://connects-research.nl/
Project duration: 1 August 2023 – 1 August 2027
Who's working on this project
Contact: Klaasjan Visscher
