Towards the transformation of students: a transdisciplinary process for higher education
Abstract
Shaping a sustainable world requires new ways of thinking and acting, so education for sustainable development is a proposal for change, yet it brings with it challenges for higher education, since it involves training students with transdisciplinary skills. So it is objective of this research, to design a transdisciplinary process for higher education, focused on the student and the higher education, industry and society link, based on holistic theory, soft systems methodology and stage-gates methodology, to develop systemic thinking, collaborative work and creativity in future professionals and those responsible for building a sustainable world. It is a qualitative research, documentary type, which was carried out in two phases: the first, was a review at the frontier of knowledge, in publications related to transdiscipline and higher education in the Web of Science of the last four years; and the second, was the design of the process, which was shaped in seven stages, based on the theoretical support of constructivism and the pedagogical support of the approach by competencies The result was the Transdisciplinary Process for Higher Education (PTD-ES), configured for four moments, ranging from the simple to the complex: I) disciplinary, II) multidisciplinary, III) interdisciplinary, IV) transdisciplinary; and three gates to assess the level of skills that students developed at each point.
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