Enhancing transdisciplinary dialogue in curricula development

A crucial step towards realizing transdisciplinary understanding is to addr ess transdisciplinary issues in university curricula, and to train students in critically analyzing and understanding disciplinary metaphors. We prese nt an experimental exercise at Stockholm University with the aim of finding a constructive way to introduce transdisciplinary elements in disciplinary courses and thus increase student awareness of disciplinary metaphors. The exercise required a minimum of formal university decision procedures and t hus circumvented the institutional barriers that tend to obstruct the estab lishment of full transdisciplinary programs. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.