Interdisciplinarity as a practice in teaching higher education
International Journal of Development Research
Interdisciplinarity as a practice in teaching higher education
Received 25th November, 2017; Received in revised form 23rd December, 2017; Accepted 09th January, 2018; Published online 28th February, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Ana Isabel Guimarães Duarte and Cristina Zukowsky -Tavares. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The study aimed to understand the concept of interdisciplinarity and the action of teachers in this direction. With a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive approach, data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 13 higher education teachers and Verbalization and Observation Group with 27 teachers from a private University Center in the city of São Paulo. The data were recorded and transcribed for discussion with the specific literature of the area through the thematic analysis. We conclude the relevance of an integrated planning in higher education and institutionally established that allows to raise awareness and open space for dialogue and joint study among teachers and to enable the collective construction of an interdisciplinary project.
