TESLA Trans-disciplinary Project in The National School of Chemistry, Physics and Biology (Paris, France)

Thanks be given to Tesla Memory Project Member Professor Pascal Vasseur who implemented the project, to director Jean-claude Lafay, who authorized and helped the project and Professors Martine Gueye-Bussy and Valéry Travet, during  school year 2010-2011, students had the opportunity to learn about Tesla in diverse disciplines including physics, chemistry, literature and English language.

Details about the project are available in French language (PROJET INTERDISCIPLINAIRE TESLA).

Why Transdisciplinarity ?

Despite numerous attempts to stem social and scientific disparities, they continue to grow being increasingly recognized as national and international’s education priority.

The origins of these disparities are multidimensional, and as such a comprehensive approach to understanding and ultimately mitigating them must involve interactions across traditional academic boundaries; however, the formal curricula in most graduate programs provide little opportunity for or instruction in trans-disciplinary thinking or interaction.

A charter on Transdisciplinarity was adopted at a World Congress in 1994 :

“Transdisciplinarity a posteriori complements disciplinary approaches as the transdisciplinary approach goes beyond the exact sciences and proposes dialogue with the humanities and the social sciences. The recognition of the existence of different levels of perception governed by different types of logic is inherent in the transdisciplinary attitude.”