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Transdisciplinary Research - A Paradigm Shift in Research Eco-System

. Dr. Gurudutta P Japee Associate Professor, University School of Commerce, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India


Abstract

Transdisciplinarity is not a vehicle that we deploy to stay alive or accomplish our projects. It is a way of being alive. It counsels us to revitalize our understandings, to rearrange our prejudices, to undermine the very knowledge that gives us a presumptive leg up of expertise on others, to seek to recombine one’s “can’t help”, and to decentre oneself and seek the marginal. – McDonald (2000)

Global Community of academicians and researchers have entered a new era characterized as transdisciplinary research practices. Over the last few decades, Transdisciplinarity has grown rapidly in medical/health research, environment research, policy research, sustainability research, social research, and educational research. The cumulative impact of transdisciplinary perspective and innovations is a new paradigm shift in research. The primary focus of this article is on Transdisciplinarity research about research questions and design.

Keywords: Continuum, Research design, Questioning paradigm, Genealogy, Fusion

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