Day 4: Understanding the Transdisciplinary Theme

Today we undertook the challenge of trying to understand the transdisciplinary theme of Sharing the Planet.

As a group, this was a bigger challenge then we thought. This is what we came up with...

After this discussion we moved onto discussing some of the issues. We discussed that some of the issues highlighted during the watching of the documentary “2040” were in fact huge issues or a summary of multiple issues. The question was posed... could we break down broad issues into smaller issues. 

To answer this question we looked at the issue of pollution and broke it down in more issues. Here is our example: 

After breaking down an issue, we thought it might be good to challenge the students to identify local (Either local community, state or national) issues. To do this, students worried in groups to analyse recent newspapers. For this task we used the local Bunyip, The Advertiser and The Australian.

The aim was to find articles about issues that related to Sharing the Planet. Take a photo of the article/s and make a comment on the photo of how it is related to the Transdisciplinary Theme. This task is still in progress.