Lecture #2- Learning in Transdisciplinary Collaborations Flashcards
Single disciplinary
- highly specialized in one disciplinary
- no cooperation with other disciplines
- development of a new detailed discipline
Multi-disciplinary
- people from different disciplines working together, each drawing on their disciplinary knowledge
- not focused on problem solving but requires expert opinions
- members cooperate in their contributions but do not integrate their perspectives
- disciplinary theory development
Interdisciplinary
- integrating methods and knowledge from different disciplines, using a real synthesis of approaches
- focused on problem framing and solving from disciplinary perspectives
- perspectives are integrated with stronger levels of cooperation
- Integration of existing methods, tools, concepts, theories and epistemologies from two or more disciplines and their linking and blending in order to address a complex problem
Transdisciplinary
- creating a unity of intellectual frameworks beyond the disciplinary frameworks
- solving problems by going beyond disciplinary perspective to involving practitioners, beneficiaries and non-academia
- new knowledge is generated through the use of multi and interdisciplinary concepts
- considered as the highest form of integration of all actors in a participatory
Culture
An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behaviour, including the outlook, attitudes, values, morals, goals and customs shared by a society
Family
A group of people who share a legal or blood bond
Legal bond
Families are legally bound through marriages, adoptions and guardianships, including the rights, duties and obligations of those legal contracts. Legal contracts can be changed, expanded or dissolved to change the composition of a family
Blood bonds
Individuals who are directly related through a common ancestor are part of a family. This includes both close and distant relatives (ex. siblings, cousins, grandparents etc.)
Community
A group of people who share something in common or who feels some sense of belonging/interpersonal connection
What are the 4 types of communities?
- Place (where people live)
- Identity (externally assigned- race)
- Affinity (something people like to do together)
- Affiliation (people you know, experiences you’ve shared, values you hold in common)
Adaptive and generative team learning
Acquiring new knowledge or skills and adjusting to an environment to improve team performance
Collaboration and learning
Proactive interaction among individuals from different disciplines and fields in a process that has the potential to create collaboration knowledge
Collective communication competence
Builds common ground when members of a team work together to sort through different perspectives and generate new shared understandings
Mutual learning
Fosters collaboration when members of teams learn about each other’s approaches. It is context dependent and it evolves through social interaction and respect for others’ views
Reflexivity/reflective equilibrium
New insights and prior knowledge are weighed against each other to produce an equilibrium
Transformational learning and deep learning
Transcends habitual thought patterns and behaviour through deep learning that changes frames of reference, assumptions and habits of mind
Transdisciplinary orientation
A combination of values, attitudes, beliefs, skills, knowledge and behaviours that predisposes individuals to collaboration
Transdisciplinary approach
Long-standing concerns about how to address a complex problem led towards collaborative research and action across diverse disciplines and societal sectors
Team learning
Adaptive team learning involves acquiring new knowledge or skills and adjusting to a particular environment
Generative team learning
Involves developing new knowledge and variables with potential for changes in norms and goals
What are the 12 c’s of team process?
- communication
- co-operation (empowerment of team)
- cohesiveness (team sticks together)
- commitment (investing in team process)
- collaboration (equality in team)
- confronts problems directly
- coordination of efforts (actions support common plan)
- conflict management
- consensus decision making
- caring (patient, client, consumer centred)
- consistency (with one another and environment)
- contribution
Paradigm
A culturally or socially shared set of beliefs, values, concepts and rules of logic for making sense of the world
Worldview
A person’s beliefs, concepts and logic
Reflexivity
Finding strategies to question our own attitudes, thought processes, values, assumptions, prejudices and habitual actions to strive to understand our complex roles in relation to others
Biophysical thinking
The physical environment in which an issue was set (observation and experience)
Socio-economic thinking
The social environment, including cultural rules and the socio-economic system (personal narrative and the narratives and memories of your community)
Ethical thinking
The principles governing relationships between individuals, environment and society (sense of right/wrong in relation to a personal commitment, a way of life, or a religion)
Artistic thinking
Sensitivity to the patterns in natural and in social systems, arising from the capacity for inspiration and creativity within each human (expressing and rebelling against the surrounding cultural norms)
Sympathetic thinking
Recognizing a shared understanding with another human or group (openness, trust and shared experiences)
Communicating values
Individuals are able to identify and communicate assumptions in topics related to the concept of sustainable development
Reflection
Reflecting about self and others and ones own perceptions and biases
