Transdisciplinarity in education
Keywords:
transdisciplinarity, education, modern languages departmentsAbstract
The present paper sets itself to analyze the
definitions of the concept of trans-disciplinarity and to
highlight the need for applying it, for the man of today and
of the future, to point out its relation to education and the
mutuality of that relation, and to suggest a number of ways
and exigencies in a transdisciplinary approach to teaching
and learning of modern languages departments, including
computer assistance.
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