The Anticipated Journey: Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Understood Through a River Metaphor

This research cluster will inquire into the circumstances that make “reciprocal interdisciplinary scholarship” possible. As a result of our work together, we will gain new knowledge about how a specific landscape can offer occasion for social, cultural, technological and scientific learning. More importantly, we will know how that landscape, and a journey through it, can be a focal point, a place on which learners can utilize many lenses to understand a whole. Potential topics include the importance of water, cultural heritage, the impact of human beings on a space, the making of art, and more. Potential benefits to IHR and more broadly ASU include our developing an on-line platform of resources through which the learning from this group can be shared to inform many other educators and scholars. We believe transdisciplinary learning is a path to our shared broader goal of an ecologically literate citizenry.