Transdiciplinarity and Pedagogy: Theory Building

Join Dr Nick Monk (IATL Director) and Phil Gaydon (IATL Teacher) as they discuss their experiences of using the theory building methodology in their inter- and transdisciplinary teaching. The video can be watched in one continuous session (about 20 minutes), or you can watch one of the sections at a time:

• How do the concepts of theory building, and more broadly, trans- and interdisciplinarity, relate to the Liberal Arts? (jump to 00:31, about 10 minutes long)
• How do you go about creating a theory build, and when do you use it? (jump to 09:46, about 10 minutes long)

This video complements the Transdisciplinarity chapter of the BLASTER Teacher Training Kit. 

Useful links:

• Phil's profile
• Nick's profile
• Open-space Learning in Real-World Contexts: Theory Building
• Planning Playful Events: using theory building outside the classroom
• The Postgraduate Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice (PCAPP)
• The Warwick Handbook of Innovative Teaching
• IATL
• Rebecca Johnson's Pedagogic Intervention project (funded by IATL): Engaging postgraduate students in mixed methods: the use of a novel activity to teach data integration and synthesis