Three general challenges recur in transdisciplinary learning environments: navigating uneven relationships, managing high time demands, and adapting to unfamiliarity with transdisciplinarity¶
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q2 i? Students, educational staff, and societal partners all experienced high time demands, with staff investing more time than in traditional coursework. → Weiwei Liu 2025
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Weiwei Liu 2025¶
Weiwei Liu, Valentina C. Tassone, Pascal Frank, Renate Wesselink, Harm J.A. Biemans. (2025). The role of human agency in dealing with challenges in transdisciplinary learning for sustainability in higher education: A scoping literature review. Educational Research Review 49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100747
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Scoping review synthesis of studies on time demands. The review reports both students and societal partners tended to overestimate the time the other party could commit, and that building relationships and ensuring shared understanding were more time-consuming than in other types of learning.
"Educational staff also noted that they invested significantly more time and energy in transdisciplinary courses than in traditional coursework (Lake et al., 2022)."
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Related Claims¶
- Students experience challenges across all four aspects of transdisciplinary learning for sustainability, including unsettling reflection on sustainability issues, tensions with non-academic partners, disciplinary communication difficulties, and struggles with multiple perspectives — related
- Uncertainty is a central feature of challenges in transdisciplinary learning for sustainability, encompassing both emotional and cognitive dimensions — related
- Research on transdisciplinary sustainability learning disproportionately examines students, with educational staff and societal partners underrepresented — related
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Three general challenges recur in transdisciplinary learning environments: navigating uneven relationships, managing high time demands, and adapting to unfamiliarity with transdisciplinarity |
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Three general challenges recur in transdisciplinary learning environments: navigating uneven relationships, managing high time demands, and adapting to unfamiliarity with transdisciplinarity |
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