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Featured Article: Telos – A Consciousness Based Perspective
Manoj Pavitran in collaboration with Arul Dev Telos is a model of consciousness and its evolutionary journey, based on the pioneering work of Sri Aurobindo1, a philosopher yogi and…
Leadership Coaching Tip: Manager, Hero and Leader
Manager, Hero and Leader Raghu Ananthanarayanan India is going through a remarkable transformation. It is racing towards becoming a leader on the world stage. In doing that it is leapfrogging…
Notes from the Field: Breakthrough Solutions for People and Planet: A Review of the Bioneers Gathering at Findhorn, Scotland, UK
Anouk Brack & Rik Hoevers Bioneers is an emerging culture of social and scientific innovators who are mimicking nature’s operating instructions to serve human ends while healing nature. For more than…
Integral Leadership Council Members
Don Beck (US) The Spiral Dynamics Group, Inc. Ron Cacioppe (Australia) Integral Development Susann Cook-Greuter (Switzerland/US) Integral Institute Richard Couto (US) Antioch University David V. Day (Australia) University of Western…
Links Between Disciplines
When links are introduced between disciplines, as is the transdisciplinary way, the disparate disciplines gain opportunities to change their concepts, structures and aims (Jantsch, 1972). From a transdisciplinary perspective, disciplines…
Vision for a Self-Integrating Academy
Jantsch (1972) envisions that a transdisciplinary university would design itself so it integrates know-how (knowledge per se), know-what (deeper meanings), know-where-to-go, and know-why. All the while, it would position itself…
Challenges of a Transdisciplinary University
The practical need to integrate disciplines within the academy, while at the same time integrating the academy and civil society (in order to deal with complex social, cultural, economic and…
Transdisciplinary Approaches
One of the many streams of thought that we have been featuring here is transdisciplinary. See the articles by Sue McGregor (2009a) and another by Predrag Cicovaki (2009) in previous…
The Transversity
This series anticipates engagement with large issues revolving around the emergence of a transdisciplinary university including its impact on early and middle stage researchers, students, administrators, knowledge generation and dissemination,…
Leading Comments
Raghu Ananthanarayanan
January 2011 Issue Before turning this column over to the Guest Editor of this special issue on India I want to share some of my own relationship to that amazing…