Creating Inspiring Workshops and Courses in Transdisciplinarity: A Guide - Manual / Resource - Page 8
What is a guide and who is it for?
Purpose and audience
What is a design guide?
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Taken most literally, this is a guide to help you design something,
leading you through all the choices you must make to get from
an idea for a training to a finished event. In this case, it is a guide
that helps you design trainings or courses on transdisciplinarity.
As a guide, it is clearly structured, logical, brief in text but rich in
contents, that includes helpful graphics and tables that provide
a simplified overview of the complex issues you must consider
in designing a training. It is intended to enable you to make
appropriate choices with regards to audience, goals, contents,
length, and flow of activities.
It is NOT meant to replace existing transdisciplinary (TD) training
resources (e.g., modules, background readings, handouts,
toolkits, discussion guides), but points you to the most
appropriate resources for your purposes. While this guide is
comprehensive, covering a rich scope of TD from conception
to evaluation, its intent is to enable you to select the most
appropriate contents as needed by your potential training
participants.
Who is this guide for?
While a design guide may be useful to a range of audiences
differing in expertise and experience in either TD and/or training,
this guide is aimed specifically at people with good familiarity in
TD, but who have not trained others in TD.
Who are the trainings for and what will
they learn?
We anticipate a wide variety of potential audiences, i.e., people
who would benefit from gaining an understanding, practical
skills, and the relevant propensities for doing TD. Examples may
include, but are not limited to, faculty new to TD but interested
in making their research societally more relevant, graduate
students and post-docs participating in a TD project, government
or philanthropic program managers who need to better
understand the characteristics of TD to inform their funding
decisions, university or professional society leaders who set
guidelines on professional advancement, and so on.
1 The term ‘Design Guide’ serves as a shortened form of the full title.
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