Transdisciplinary Methodology in Research and Education: The EMMY Case

Abstract

This paper sums up some of my previous ideas on transdisciplinarity applied during the last years. My pedagogical experience enriched with situations solved by me through transdisciplinary methodology/ thinking, i.e. the levels of reality paradigm, the theory of Complexity, and the logic of the third included. These three pillars of the transdisciplinary methodology are used in the sense described by Basarab Nicolescu. That is why I consider EMMY is a quite concrete application of transdisciplinarity to a better understanding of human behavior. Here are some of my ideas I am using in the teaching process: a) there is no more “science”, but only the triadic process of research, cognition and (new) knowledge; b) EMMY is an application of transdisciplinarity as a methodological tool; c) there are no “social sciences”, but a united and interconnected corpus of relevant knowledge on humans and their behavior.