Utopian thinking and the collective mind: Beyond transdisciplinarity

Futures

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 209-216

  Brown, Valerie A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collective knowledge; Collective mind; Collective thinking; Mode 2 knowledge; Reflective thinking; Transdisciplinarity; Transformational change; Utopian thinking; Ways of knowing; Wicked problems

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ESTHETICS; ETHICS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING;

EID: 84923006736     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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