TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO SD

Welcome to my blog once again. This time, I would like to share one last topic that I have learnt for Sustainable Development subject last week. So, the topic that I learnt in last week is transdisciplinary approach to sustainable development. As we can see from the topic itself, we will get some exposure on how to practice discipline in ourselves to build a better world in front of us. There are three objective for this topic as mentioned below:-

  1. Understand the disciplinary perspective

  2. Understand inter multi and transdisciplinary perspective

  3. Applying transdisciplinary approach (sustainability science) on sustainable development issues

Each one of us need to play our own roles in order to change the world. It cannot be only one or two persons working on this huge issues. So, we need to take part and be responsible. For example, in the university itself, there are so many different courses that students take, so how about be responsible in their own area? What I meant by that is each one of the students need to figure out a way on how to make the world a better place in the future using their knowledge for each courses. We cannot simply determine on which courses are the best in helping us to achieve sustainable development because all of us are responsible on it and we cannot just point out a few organisations or courses that we think is related to acquire sustainability. For example, we might think that Islamic Revealed Knowledge (IRK) course are not related to acquire sustainability at all, but we do not see it in other perspective. Instead, we need to work together and implement a brilliant idea to sustain the world.

IIUM students who have been to campus might have realized that our river is too murky and muddy due to land exploration work. In other words, we can say that IIUM have become a victim to this human's activity. So, how can we provide solutions to this issue? As I already  mentioned above, we need to have cooperation between each courses to help IIUM from this murky and muddy river. As such, we need to know the river solution in Engineering perspective, understanding the river problem from Political Science, studying the legal issues in river pollution, IT based solution for polluted river and discovering the river pollution in islamic perspective.

Hence, we need to have different perspective in seeing the solution in order to provide a solution that would entirely change our world. For example, we need to know how would the Department of Irrigation identify the problem, what would be the IIUM researchers do to solve the problem, what would be the community's perspective on this issue and how would the business entities define this problem or solution. We need to answer all of this at once so that we can discover a solution that will be beneficial to all of us. 

We can see that problems are always revolve around us and we cannot segregate the problems in this world because it almost impossible for each of us to not have trouble. Thus, we need to always come up with solutions to solve our problems because we cannot simply let the problems go away on its own. When we have problems, we need to face it not to run from it because if you run from it, the problem will never be resolved. Until then, that's all for my blog for this week. Hope you guys are enjoying my content.