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Article on interdisciplinarity in journal of Science Communication

Tuesday, 8 September 2020

A comment of Renate Klaassen of 4TU.CEE Delft on ‘Disentangling the different layers of interdisciplinarity’ was included in a special issue of the Journal of Science Communication. She comments that scholars investigating teamwork crossing disciplines have different definitions and understandings about what interdisciplinarity is, which can be related to the field these experts represent. Based on the discussions during the Humboldt University’s “Interdisciplinarity revisited” lecture series, Klaassen explains various distinctions scholars make regarding interdisciplinarity. She discusses the differences between wider and closer interdisciplinarity and how interdisciplinarity could be extended to include the public as well. She brings examples for the bottom-up and top-down organisation of interdisciplinarity in institutions. 

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Disentangling the different layers of interdisciplinarity

About the special issue

The comment is part of the special issue “Science communication as a design challenge in transdisciplinary collaborations” on the topic of science communication as an enabler of transdisciplinary learning and complex problem-solving in higher education. The special issue contains articles about: 

The special issue was edited by Eva Kalmar from the Science Education and Communication department from TU Delft and her colleague Hanneke Stenfert from the professional field.