With over 30,000 disciplines a simple map as follows doesn’t really do it justice. However, all semiotics are useful but not perfect. When we talk about Transdisciplinarity, what we mean is being able to transverse across these disciplinary categories but also many non-academic disciplines. Indeed, … [Read more...] about Conversations Across and Within Disciplines About Transdisciplinarity
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Icing on the Safety Cake and Transdisciplinarity
There are many models, tools and methods we offer in SPoR that clearly include traditional approaches to safety. We don’t talk about this much because why discuss traditional safety with people who already know what it is. Afterall, when the safety curriculum is 85-90% Technical/Engineering in … [Read more...] about Icing on the Safety Cake and Transdisciplinarity
Transdisciplinarity, A Source for Learning in Safety – A Video
The best way to learn in safety is outside the safety bubble. Listening or seeking learning about culture, ethics or linguistics in the safety cocoon is not just a waste of time but perpetuates the ignorance many Safety myths. The safety curriculum and the AIHS Body of Knowledge has nothing to do … [Read more...] about Transdisciplinarity, A Source for Learning in Safety – A Video
A Model for Transdisciplinarity in Risk
Stepping outside the comfort zone of engineering, beahviourism and positivism is essential for anyone who wants to learn in safety. Regurgitating and recycling the same assumptions about safety, will never lead to learning in safety. Similarly, approaching risk from a methodology that prioritizes … [Read more...] about A Model for Transdisciplinarity in Risk
Transdisciplinarity and Worldviews in Risk
‘We do not think of the ordinary person as preoccupied with such difficult and profound questions as: ‘What is truth?’, ‘What is authority?’, ‘To whom do I listen?’, ‘What counts for me as evidence?’, ‘How do I know what I know?’, ‘Why do the good suffer?’, How does any of this make sense?’... Yet … [Read more...] about Transdisciplinarity and Worldviews in Risk
Full STEAM Ahead in Safety
The STEM vs STEAM debate has been about for a long time. I remember back in the 1970s as a teacher in the South Australian school system, a similar debate about allocated times to subjects in schools. Back then, the idea of alternatives to mainstream education were popular and, in those cases, (as … [Read more...] about Full STEAM Ahead in Safety
Learning From Other Worlds in Risk
One of the privileges of being a grandparent is learning about and from new and other worlds. Yesterday I returned from Sydney after an excursion to see two music groups I have never heard of, so a 16-year-old could see her favourite band. It’s rare to be given access to observe another world … [Read more...] about Learning From Other Worlds in Risk
Studying The SPoR Curriculum
A long time ago in SPoR, we realised that the traditional curriculum in risk and safety needed to be extended. We called on reform of the curriculum many years ago (https://safetyrisk.net/isnt-it-time-we-reformed-the-whs-curriculum/). This challenge for reform was about adding to the safety … [Read more...] about Studying The SPoR Curriculum
The Sacred Triangle in Safety
There is little doubt that the triangle is ‘sacred’ to Safety. A search on Google for ‘safety triangle’ shows 297,000,000 results. The best way to work out if something is ‘sacred’ to a group is to suggest to take it away. Then watch the response, the sense of dependence and the dissonance in … [Read more...] about The Sacred Triangle in Safety
Risk is About Persons NOT Energies
It’s always instructive to see what Safety gets excited about. Look at any of the fads about and do some simple Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Look at what is said and what is NOT said in risk and safety to really see what is believed. Silences (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-culture-silences/) … [Read more...] about Risk is About Persons NOT Energies