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Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning

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This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education.
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What is transdisciplinarity – and what are its methods? How does a living lab work? What is the purpose of citizen science, student-organized teaching and cooperative education? This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education. Transdisciplinary learning turns out to be a comprehensive innovation process in response to the major global challenges such as climate change, urbanization or migration. A reference work for students, lecturers, scientists, and anyone wanting to understand the profound changes in higher education.
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Pages: 428
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837663471
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Research

Thorsten Philipp is a political scientist and lecturer for sustainability and political communication at various universities. As a member of the presidential staff at Technische Universität Berlin, his task is to promote transdisciplinary learning at the interface between science and society. His research focuses on the intersection of sustainably theories and pop music.
Tobias Schmohl is a full professor of higher education research at Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Germany. He advocates for university teaching that bridges professional/social efforts and scientific pursuits, fostering transdisciplinary skills, real-world abilities, and civic engagement.

Frontmatter 1
Editorial 2
Content 5
Preface 9
Embracing the Rhizome: Transdisciplinary Learning for Innovative Problem Solving 13
Boundary Work 21
Case Study 31
Citizen Science 41
Cooperative Education 53
Critical Thinking 63
Data Literacy 73
Design Thinking 83
Education for Sustainable Development 93
Embodied Learning 103
Engaged Learning 113
Entrepreneurship Education 123
Experiment 133
Fab Lab 145
Feedback Literacy 155
Global Citizenship Education 165
Hackathon 175
Indigenous Knowledge 187
Interdisciplinarity 195
Internship 205
Knowledge Transfer 215
Learning in Transformation 225
Living Lab 235
Mode 2 245
Participatory Action Research 257
Performative Knowledge 267
Personal Sustainability 277
Real-World Lab 287
Research Integrity 297
Research-Based Education 307
Science Communication 317
Science Shop 329
Scientific Knowledge 339
Scrum 349
Storytelling 359
Student-Organized Teaching 371
Transdisciplinarity 381
Transformative Learning 391
Authors 401
Reviewers 423