Transdisciplinary Framework

Advancing Transdisciplinary Research: The Transdisciplinary Energetics and Cancer Initiative

Strategies for constructing and maintaining cross-disciplinary teams are in their infancy. We outline strategies to support one form, transdisciplinary research, in a major initiative of the National Cancer Institute, the Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer 2 (TREC2) initiative. Discussion of the TREC2 sites’ experiences with transdisciplinarity is structured around a conceptual...

Becoming Transdisciplinary: The Emergence of the Transdisciplinary Individual

Transdisciplinary Commitments in University Curriculum

Nowadays, there is a growing interest in transdisciplinary approach to university curriculum development, transdisciplinary Studies are about the realms, goals, and goals of the transition field. The early phases of transdisciplinary in higher education curriculum can be complex and so there are challenges to the definition and operationalization this approach to the university curriculum. In ...

Problematizing Disciplinarity, Transdisciplinary Problematics

This article situates current debates about transdisciplinarity within the deeper history of academic disciplinarity, in its difference from the notions of inter- and multi-disciplinarity. It offers a brief typology and history of established conceptions of transdisciplinarity within science and technology studies. It then goes on to raise the question of the conceptual structure of transdiscip...

Fostering transdisciplinary science.

The causes and prevention of cancer in humans are complex phenomena, and thereby require the application of scientific methods to address this inherent complexity. It is a common axiom that researchers from multiple disciplines may be required to address the complex etiology and prevention of human disease. There are, however, a number of ways that a group of researchers may bring their individ...