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Towards transdisciplinary education
(2005)
The methodology of transdisciplinarity is founded on three postulates:
there are, in Nature and in our knowledge of Nature, different levels of Reality and,
correspondingly, different levels of perception; the passage ...
A framework to evaluate the functionality of mobile applications for music composition
(2014)
The functionality of a diverse range of mobile applications for music composition is discussed in
this paper. The focus is on generic functionality requirements, the needs of novice and expert
users to compose music and ...
How Pat Metheny came to Carolina in Mpumalanga, South Africa: using music in transdisciplinary water research
(2013)
Listening to music can help researchers to comprehend and gain insight into complex
problems in transdisciplinary research. This article explains how members of a research
group at North-West University in South Africa ...
Knowledge is everywhere: a philosophical exploration
(2007)
In this article, I would like to argue that interdisciplinarity belongs to the very nature of
knowledges in their diverse manifestations and any disregard for this idea would mean
a distortion of knowledge while creating ...
Foundation for transdisciplinary education at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
(AOSIS, 2020)
South Africa faces a multitude of social, economic and environmental challenges, which require well-considered planning efforts. However, the efficacy of the built environment professions to adequately plan for the current ...
‘From History Project to Transdisciplinary Research’: District Six as a case study
(AOSIS, 2018)
This article expounds how a National Research Foundation (NRF) history project evolved into a transdisciplinary study. The article develops a case in favour of transdisciplinary research as a departure from strict ...
A reflection on the role, potential and challenges of transdisciplinarity at the University of Fort Hare
(AOSIS, 2019)
The world is currently grappling with a myriad of challenges such as unemployment, poverty, inequality, violent crimes and HIV and AIDS. These challenges exist on multiple levels and are viewed from different perspectives ...
Empathetic-reflective-dialogical re-storying: A teaching–learning strategy for life orientation
(AOSIS, 2021)
This article presents a teaching–learning strategy that has been employed in recent small-scale
research projects at a South African higher education institution, and more specifically, in the
School of Education. Bachelor ...
Boundary talk in Life (dis)Orientation: Collaborative conversations across Higher Education Institutions
(AOSIS, 2021)
Life Orientation (LO) as a compulsory subject in the South African school curriculum (Grades
7–12) aims to develop the learner’s self-in-society. This implies a holistic approach that includes
the personal, social and ...
Observing representational practices in art and anthropology – a transdisciplinary approach
(2010)
It has been suggested that anthropology operates in “liminal spaces” which can be defined as
“spaces between disciplines”. This study will explore the space where the fields of art and
anthropology meet in order to ...