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Refereed Paper with Presentation

**Transdisciplinary emergence and Constructive Consilience**
Katherine Watson, Coastline Community College, Fountain Valley, California, USA, bizarrissime@gmail.com

Humankind hungers to share its culturally-generated perspectives (Nisbett, 2005); depending upon our worldview, we select from among various internationally alternative creative “thought pattern-styles”. Further, we deploy our natural human curiosity and reason to understand in a singular, consilient way, constructing abstract bridges through language that will cross disciplinary boundaries (Wilson, 1999). Coastline Community College online learners of French language and culture have achieved transdisciplinary consilience by learning effectively how to deploy eight particular types of creative thought that at once typify the traditional francophone schooling goals of argumentation and analysis and define the mental cross-fertilization that underlies a unity of knowledge.

All Audiences consilience, transdisciplinarity, language learning, creativity and learning