The potential of transdisciplinary research for sustaining and extending linkages between the health and social sciences

Rosenfield, Patricia L.

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“…In exploring these collaborations, researchers and educators use the terms multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity, often without clearly distinguishing among them, though these terms are well defined and distinguished by e.g. Klein [5], Rosenfield [6] and Nicolescu [7]. In short,…”

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Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Lifelong Learning: Fostering and Supporting New Learning Opportunities

Domik

Fischer

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The contexts provided by the world of the 21 st century require that our societies rethink and reinvent learning, teaching, working, and collaboration. A first basic challenge insufficiently addressed by prior research and practice is that almost all of the significant problems of tomorrow will be systemic problems, which cannot be addressed by any one specialty. These problems require transdisciplinary collaboration that focuses on opportunities for knowledge workers to work in teams, communities, and organizations that encompass multiple ways of knowing and collaborating. A second basic challenge is that learning can no longer be dichotomized into a place and time to acquire knowledge (school) and a place and time to apply knowledge (the workplace). To educate students today requires that we provide them with opportunities and soft skills to become lifelong learners. This paper (1) discusses the conceptual frameworks that we have developed to address these challenges; (2) describes our implementation and experience teaching a one semester graduate course based on our framework; and (3) discusses implications and future opportunities.

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Section: Transdisciplinary Collaborationmentioning

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Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Lifelong Learning: Fostering and Supporting New Learning Opportunities

Domik

Fischer

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…19,20 Rosenfield describes a continuum of collaborative research ranging from unidisciplinary and multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. According to Rosenfield, transdisciplinary collaborations (compared to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary forms of cross-disciplinary research) lead to the development of shared conceptual frameworks that not only integrate but also transcend the individual disciplinary perspectives represented by various members of the research team.…”

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Measuring Collaboration and Transdisciplinary Integration in Team Science

Mâsse

Moser

Stokols

et al. 2008

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Purpose:As the science of team science evolves, the development of measures that assess important processes related to working in transdisciplinary teams is critical. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present the psychometric properties of scales measuring collaborative processes and transdisciplinary integration. Methods:Two hundred-sixteen researchers and research staff participating in the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC) Initiative completed the TTURC researcher survey. Confirmatory-factor analyses were used to verify the hypothesized factor structures. Descriptive data pertinent to these scales and their associations with other constructs were included to further examine the properties of the scales. Results:Overall, the hypothesized-factor structures, with some minor modifications, were validated. A total of four scales were developed, three to assess collaborative processes (satisfaction with the collaboration, impact of collaboration, trust and respect) and one to assess transdisciplinary integration. All scales were found to have adequate internal consistency (i.e., Cronbach ␣'s were all Ͼ0.70); were correlated with intermediate markers of collaborations (e.g., the collaboration and transdisciplinary-integration scales were positively associated with the perception of a center's making good progress in creating new methods, new science and models, and new interventions); and showed some ability to detect group differences.Conclusions: This paper provides valid tools that can be utilized to examine the underlying processes of team science-an important step toward advancing the science of team science.(Am J Prev Med 2008;35(2S):S151-S160)

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“…They provide a niche for people to speak the same language, and to interrogate the assumptions that they use to investigate problems (Raphael, 1981). However, their boundaries pose a potential problem in communication with different disciplines (whether it is interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary or trans-disciplinary; Rosenfield, 1992) and potentially with study subjects who may 'speak a different language'.…”

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“…Work across disciplines is challenging and these challenges relate to the degree of interaction between different disciplinary groups. Rosenfield provides a useful definition of interaction and relationship: multi-disciplinarity is when researchers work in parallel or sequentially from a disciplinary-specific base to address a common problem; inter-disciplinarity is when researchers work jointly but still from a disciplinary-specific basis to address common problems; and trans-disciplinary is when researchers work jointly using shared conceptual frameworks drawing together disciplinary-specific theories, concepts and approaches to address common problems (Rosenfield, 1992). The trans-disciplinary approach requires individuals to shift their own perspectives in order to create a conceptual framework.…”

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Epidemiological Reflections of the Contribution of Anthropology to Public Health Policy and Practice

Porter

2005

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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The rise of science propelled man into tunnels of specialized knowledge. With every step forward in scientific knowledge, the less clearly he could see the world as a whole or his own self. (Milan Kundera, 1984, quoted in Lock & Scheper-Hughes, 1990 Summary. Academic disciplines like anthropology and epidemiology provide a niche for researchers to speak the same language, and to interrogate the assumptions that they use to investigate problems. How anthropological and epidemiological methods communicate and relate to each other affects the way public health policy is created but the philosophical underpinnings of each discipline makes this difficult. Anthropology is reflective, subjective and investigates complexity and the individual; epidemiology, in contrast, is objective and studies populations. Within epidemiological methods there is the utilitarian concept of potentially sacrificing the interests of the individual for the benefits of maximizing population welfare, whereas in anthropology the individual is always included. Other strengths of anthropology in the creation of public health policy include: its attention to complexity, questioning the familiar; helping with language and translation; reconfiguring boundaries to create novel frameworks; and being reflective. Public health requires research that is multi-, inter-and trans-disciplinary. To do this, there is a need for each discipline to respect the 'dignity of difference' between disciplines in order to help create appropriate and effective public health policy.

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The potential of transdisciplinary research for sustaining and extending linkages between the health and social sciences

Cited by 747 publications

References 19 publications

Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Lifelong Learning: Fostering and Supporting New Learning Opportunities

Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Lifelong Learning: Fostering and Supporting New Learning Opportunities

Measuring Collaboration and Transdisciplinary Integration in Team Science

Epidemiological Reflections of the Contribution of Anthropology to Public Health Policy and Practice

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