Integrative Transdisciplinarity: Explorations and Experiments in Creative Scholarship

Abstract

Throughout the world there has been a sustained criticism of current educational systems, which are viewed as unsustainable because inappropriate for an age of complexity. In this article I reflect on the development of what I call Integrative Transdisciplinarity, an approach to inquiry for individual scholars. Integrative Transdisciplinarity is grounded in systems and complexity thinking and frames inquiry as a creative process. I discuss the theoretical foundations of this approach with references to some of the ways in which it has been applied in a transdisciplinary doctoral program for almost 20 years.