A comparative study of transdisciplinarity in some foreign universities and the possibility of benefiting from it in the Egyptian universities

Abstract EN

Today, the world is facing rapid changes and many complex and intertwined problems resulting from economic, social and environmental conditions, which places the responsibility on countries and societies to make efforts and adopt unfamiliar approaches and ideas in order to confront these problems, through their various institutions, especially academic and research institutions Transdisciplinarity is one of the approaches through which integration and complementarity between various scientific disciplines can be achieved, and that helps societies solve problems and handle issues that require more than one scientific discipline to be addressed.

Transdisciplinarity is concerned with building a new synthesis of knowledge is built through the merging of various disciplines with the aim of solving and confronting societal and life problems that one separate discipline may not be able to face.

The primary goal of transdisciplinarity is to make science and higher education more responsive to the complexity of global problems and more relevant to the common good and the needs of societies.

Some contemporary universities are interested in this approach through their various study programs and practices with the aim of presenting new disciplines and programs and helping to solve local and international problems.

Despite the efforts and attempts made in Egypt in the context of expanding higher education institutions and programs, Egyptian universities still suffer from some shortcomings related to achieving integration between different scientific disciplines.

The current research aimed to study transdisciplinarity theoretically and in New Mexico Tech University (NMT) in the United States of America, University of Science, Malaysia (USM) in Malaysia, and The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU) in India to identify the reality of their transdisciplinary practices, in an attempt to reach some suggestions through which transdisciplinarity can be adopted in Egyptian universities.