Abstract

VARONA DOMINGUEZ, Freddy. Interdisciplinarity in higher education: a look from the opposition to mercantilism. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2022, vol.14, n.5, pp. 369-383.  Epub Oct 30, 2022. ISSN 2218-3620.

The present work consists of the exposition of theoretical elaborations focused on higher education, carried out with an epistemological and universal vision, and developed from the perspective of the relationships between being and what should be. Its starting point is the criticism of the mercantilist trend, the positivist conceptions that serve as theoretical support and some characteristics that this educational level has come to possess on the basis of positivism. From here, we reflect on complex thought as a theoretical body that opposes this trend and some considerations based on it are explained. On this basis, and from the changes that have taken place in recent times in science, society and culture, as well as from various current theories, some ideas are developed about interdisciplinarity and its presence at the aforementioned educational level, in links with the humanities. The objective is to provide some arguments why in higher education the interdisciplinarity that takes place within the framework of non-humanistic disciplines increases its quality when it includes the humanities.

Keywords : Humanities; Epistemology; Positivism; Complex thinking; Interdisciplinarity.

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