Creating Inspiring Workshops and Courses in Transdisciplinarity: A Guide - Manual / Resource - Page 53
Foundational
Who is this for?
For trainees who are new to TDR and want to develop a basic
understanding. This level is suitable for trainees who are not
intending to participate in, lead or design a TDR project; it is
also foundational for trainees who are new to TDR and want
to participate in or lead a project. In addition, it may also be
useful for decision-makers within a university, funding agency
or practitioner organization in order to become more familiar
with TDR, towards valuing and supporting TDR.
“Be able to describe and differentiate”
Aims and pro昀椀ciencies
Know: Build awareness and understanding
Do: Build skills for use and application
Trainees can recognize key
attributes of TDR and understand
the importance of normativity,
reflexivity
•
Trainees can identify when it
is appropriate to choose a TRD
approach to address a complex
sustainability problem
•
•
Trainees are familiar with
examples of common structures
and processes in TDR
•
•
Trainees understand the strengths
and limitations of conventional
approaches to research, and how
a TDR approach facilitates societal
change
•
•
Trainees can articulate how
and why TDR is different from
conventional research design and
practice
Trainees can recognize a TDR
proposal in general terms (based
on attributes)
Be: Foster and develop an identity and
accompanying values of a TD researcher
•
Trainees can explain their own
position and stance regarding
a complex problem and the
knowledges that support
decision-making
•
Trainees can recognize that others
have different perspectives,
experiences and knowledges, and
that bringing difference together
is valuable
•
Trainees become enablers, nonhinderers, of TDR
Trainees can apply simple
reflexivity tools [etc.]
Transdisciplinary research proficiencies Foundational
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