Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: prospects for the design the university to come

Abstract

The present work presents some reflections on the current situation of the university as a social institution of high studies; particularly in the fact that it has emphasized in the disciplinary approach leading to the fragmentation of knowledge, the little link between the institution and its social context, among others. This situation represents an obstacle to achieve a true transformation in the university context. Based on the above, the methodological approach was guided by hermeneutics, which, as a critical and reflexive exercise, allowed to establish a state of the art on the theoretical treatment that has been given to the subject which contributed with the proposal of a series of reflections in Around the perspectives that will allow to dynamize the educational process in the university to come, which is the purpose of this investigation. Reason why, interdisciplinary is proposed as a way to achieve transdisciplinarity as referents that contribute to the conception of the university to come, from wich science,technology and humanism are assumed to contribute to the strengthening of human values And the social capital of the region, through a training that integrates university knowledge with the plurality of cultural, daily and historical knowledge to assist in the construction of a more humane society.