58283166 Basarab Nicolescu the NEED for TRANSDISCIPLINARITY in HIGHER EDUCATION Ppt File Keynote Speaker Talk at the International Higher Education Congres

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THE NEED FORTRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN

HIGHER EDUCATION

Istanbul, May 28, 2011

Basarab NICOLESCU

CNRS, Paris, FranceUniversity Babes-Bolyai,

Cluj, Romania

Stellenbosch Institute for

Advanced Studies (STIAS),

South Africa


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Knowledge in the

era ofglobalization


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Transdisciplinary approachrealistic and even necessary for

survival of universities

Crucial condition: what is reality?

Wolfgang Pauli: the formulation of a new idea of reality is

the most important and most difficult task od our time.


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REALITY IS PLASTIC

The only ground of Reality : the ordered

overall movement

We are part of this ordered movement:in this sense, Reality depends on us

THE REALITY IS PLASTIC


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OUR RESPONSIBILITY

Ourfreedom: enter into the movement

or perturb it.

Respondto the movement or imposeour will of power and domination.

Our responsibility: built sustainable

futures in agreement with the overallmovement.


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WHY

TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IS

TODAY NOT ONLYREALISTIC BUT ALSO

NECESSARY?


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1st reason:unprecedented increase of

knowledge

Number of disciplines

1300: 7

1950: 54

1975: 1845

2011: > 8000

National Register of Scientific and

Technical Personnel, National Science

Foundation (NSF) archives, USA


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2011: > 8000 disciplines

EXPERT1 disciplineIGNORANT - > 7999 disciplines

How can we take a realistic

decision?


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2ndreason

Fast changes UNEMPLOYMENT

Change jobs once or even several times during humanbeings lifetime


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3rd reason

Advances in neurophysiology

Decisions in complex situationsdominated by

Emotions and feelings

Analytic mind too slow as compared with intelligence of

feelings

Harmony between inner being and outer knowledge


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4th reason

Globalization

Enormous flux of populationfrom countries of one

culture, religion, spirituality to another culture, religion,

spirituality

New educationcultivate the dialogue


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5th reason

Rapid advances in means of communication

Increased complexity in an interconnected world

The new education has to invent new methods ofteachingnew logics


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6th reason

Globalization

Real world solving problems forces university to interact

with society, industry, banks, ecology, which are obviously

trans - they are beyond academic disciplinaes.

University can become a major force in building

sustainable futures.


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MULTIDISCIPLINARITY: studying a research

topic not in just one discipline but in several

at the same time

INTERDISCIPLINARITY: transfering of

methods from one discipline to another

TRANSDISCIPLINARITY: studying thatwhich is at once between the disciplines,

across the different disciplines, and

beyond all disciplines


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Goal :understanding the present world

UNDERSTANDING = KNOWLEDGE+BEING

Finality :unity of knowledge

No opposition between disciplinarity

and transdisciplinarity:

TD is not indisciplinarity

TD study of the interaction of Object

and Subject

new knowledge


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Transdisciplinarity word

introduced in 1970 by Jean Piaget


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DISCIPLINARY

EDUCATION(DE)

TRANSDISCIPLINARY

EDUCATION(TE)

IN VITRO

One level of Reality

IN VIVO

Several levels of Reality

External world - Object

Correspondence between

External world (Object) and

Internal world (Subject)

Accumulation of knowledge Understanding

Analytic intelligence

New type of intelligence -

harmony between mind,

feelings and body

Oriented towards power and

possession

Oriented towards

astonishment and sharing

Binary logic Included middle logicExclusion of values Inclusion of values


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METHODOLOGY OFTRANSDISCIPLINARITY

3 axioms

1. The ontological axiom

2. The logical axiom

3. The epistemological axiom

Rigourous definition of TD


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THE ONTOLOGICAL AXIOM

OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

There are differentlevels of Reality of the Objectand, correspondingly, different

levels of Reality of the Subject


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REALITY

ourexperiencesour representations

our descriptions

our images

our mathematical formulations

That which resists


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REAL

that which is - veiled for ever

REALITY

that which resists - accessible to our knowledge+ trans-subjective dimension


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LEVEL OF REALITY

Set of systems invariant under

certain general laws (natural

systems) or under certain general

norms and rules (social systems)

There is discontinuitybetween levels


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Levels of Reality

of the Object +

Zone of non-

resistance

Restores the

continuitybetween levels


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Levels of Reality

of the Subject +Zone of non-resistance


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Knowledge isnether

exterior nor interiorHIDDEN THIRD


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Examples

Natural systems:

quantum level

macrophysical(classical) level

cyber-space-time level

superstring level

Social systems:

individual level

geographical andhistorical community level

(family, nation)

cyber-space-time

community levelthe planetary level


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THE LOGICAL AXIOM

The passage from one level of Reality

to another is insured by the

logic of the included middle


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Included middle

There exists a

third term

Twhich is at the same time

A Non-ASymbolic representation of the

action of included middle logic

A Non-A

T

NR1

NR2


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THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL AXIOM

The structure of the totality of

levels of reality and perception is

a complex structure:

Every level is what it isbecause all the levels exist

at the same time


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TRANS REALITYLevels of Reality of the Object

Levels of Reality of the Subject

The Hidden Third

organization

structuring

integration

confusion

language

representation/

interpretation

ignorance

intelligence

contemplation

objectivity

subjectivity

complexity

knowledge

understanding

being

materiality

spirituality

non-duality

Levels of

Contextualization


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A new Principle of Relativity

No level of Reality

constitutes a priviledgedplace from which one is able

to understand all the other

levels of Reality Every level - incompletness

Knowledge is forever open

TRANS-REALITY


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Environment

(natural and artificial:

Quantum

MacrophysicalCyber-Space-Time

A1 non-A1

EconomicT2

TRANS REALITY

A3 non-A3T3Planetary

Cosmic

TD OBJECT

non-A2A2

A1 non-A1

TD SUBJECT

A2 non-A2

T3A3 non-A3Political

T2Social

Historical

Individual

X

HIDDEN

THIRD

ReligionsSpiritualities

Cultures


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CONCLUSIONS


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-The exceptional role of emotions and feelings in education

- Integral education of the human beingmind, feelings, body

- PhD programs in TD (Romania, South Africa)

- TD curricula

- Emergence of continually connected beings

- Transcultural vision

- New TD knowledgemultidimensional openingcivil society,

cybers-space-time, universality, values


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Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)

Facing the rigurousdivision, from the17th century, of

human spirit inisolated disciplines, Iconsider the aim oftransgressing their

opposition [] asthe explicit myth ofour present times


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MINIMAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Basarab Nicolescu,Manifesto of

Transdisciplinarity, New York, SUNY Press,2002

Basarab Nicolescu (ed.), TransdisciplinarityTheory and practice, Hampton Press,

Cresskill, New Jersey, USA, 2008 Antonio R. Damasio, Looking for Spinoza:

Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, San Diego,Harcourt, 2003.

Internet site of the International Center forTransdisciplinary Research (CIRET)

http://basarab.nicolescu.perso.sfr.fr/ciret/

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