Meeting points between interdisciplinarity and complex thinking in teaching practice

Abstract

The need to direct attention to the teaching process from the perspective of overcoming the fragmentation of knowledge and the integration of different areas is present in the educational scenario, especially nowadays. Therefore, this study, which consists of an excerpt from a doctoral thesis, aimed to investigate the meeting points between interdisciplinarity, with emphasis on the ideas of Ivani Fazenda and the complex thinking of Edgar Morin, emphasizing the teaching practice. To this end, we conducted a literature review of the narrative type, based on authors and works recognized as references. Throughout the study, we presented and discussed interdisciplinarity from different perspectives, its principles and foundations, and complex thinking, and yet, we seek convergences and articulations between these two approaches. In view of this, we argue that the meeting points between interdisciplinarity and complex thinking make explicit the possibility of teaching directed to integrated knowledge, in which the interactions between the areas of knowledge and intersubjectivity are key elements, considering the multidimensionality of reality in the educational contexto.