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University Reform toward Sustainability: Issue-Driven Approaches to Transdisciplinary Education

摘要

University reform toward sustainability demands an integrated approach to research and education that bridges traditional academic boundaries. Issue-driven, problem-based, and team-based learning environments foster the development of researchers and professionals who can operate as connectionists, transcending divides between generalist and specialist training and discipline-based research cultures. This reform emphasizes cultivating both global and local mindsets, enabling learners to navigate cross-cultural contexts and compare diverse practices to identify effective sustainability strategies in different regions. Achieving these aims requires universities to expand opportunities for international and interdisciplinary collaboration and to redesign institutional structures, curricula, and incentives accordingly. Such transformation is essential for preparing graduates capable of addressing complex sustainability challenges through collaborative, context-sensitive, and transdisciplinary approaches.

簡介

Professor Johan Lauwereyns is a cognitive scientist, bioethicist, and writer exploring how doubt and uncertainty influence decision-making. He teaches psychology, cognitive science, and bioethics at Kyushu University, where he helped design the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation and established "Humans and Life" as a cross-disciplinary research theme. As Senior Vice President for International Affairs, Public Relations, and Student Support since 2022, he advances the university's global engagement. Beyond academia, he has published over twenty volumes of prose and poetry in Dutch, receiving the VSB Poetry Prize and Hugues C. Pernath Prize.

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