Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena (Editor)
Area: Science | Biology | Education
Collection: IEAT
ISBN: 978-85-7041-843-2
2010. 360 p.

Academic knowledge is often fragmented into small fiefdoms passionately guarded by “experts.” An old Buddhist metaphor states that our planet has many oceans, but they all taste the same—salty. Similarly, we believe that the balkanization of knowledge ignores its unique reality and is nothing more than an academic contrivance. We need to let ideas, opinions, and methodologies flow uninhibitedly across their artificial boundaries. This is the essence of transdisciplinary thinking, as demonstrated by the texts in this book, which emerged from the activities of the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies (IEAT).