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Transdisciplinary Knowledge—An Emergent Concept

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This chapter seeks to present a concise overview of the history and knowledge of transdisciplinarity. It is not intended to be extensive but to set the scene for the interviews that follows, contextualising the information from our key thinkers and providing a discussion of relevant contemporary themes.

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Notes

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    This separation coheres with the position taken by McGregor in this book; also, the notion of translation is central to the work of Maguire.

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    A Bhaskar (2016) term that embraces a multiplicity of causes, mechanisms and theories.

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  3. Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW, Australia

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Beavis, A., Gibbs, P. (2020). Transdisciplinary Knowledge—An Emergent Concept. In: Contemporary Thinking on Transdisciplinary Knowledge. SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39785-2_2

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