Epistemological and methodological guidelines of transdisciplinary thought

Abstract

Our project recognizes the contribution of different works that began relating complex thinking to trialism (Galati, 2018), with transdisciplinarity in hospital ethics committees (Galati, 2015), and with the methodology of scientific research (Galati, 2020 ). In the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the National University of Rosario (UNR), the construction, appropriation and transfer of knowledge in the scope of the Integrated System of Agroecological Productions (SIPA) has been investigating the approach of agroecology and the complex thinking, considering the productions of teachers and students during the 2017-2019 period. The results showed that there was integration of concepts and procedures of both approaches. Likewise, the persistence of scientific practices in favor of a fragmenting and decontextualizing disciplinary hyperspecialization of knowledge (Muñoz, 2022) was recognized. The SIPA has created the undergraduate diploma "agroecological transition applied to extensive systems of the core zone of the Pampas region". With this work, it is sought: 1- Inquire about the potentialities that transdisciplinary thinking has from the epistemological and methodological point of view, from the work of the Romanian-French philosopher Basarab Nicolescu, 2- Develop, understand, analyze and synthesize Nicolescu's transdisciplinary research, in relation to epistemology, methodology of scientific research, from a complex approach, and 3- Recognize inter and transdisciplinary emerging in the academic and scientific productions of SIPA. For this, a qualitative methodological strategy is developed based mainly on a comprehensive, interpretive and critical work that combines documentary analysis, participant observation and in -depth interviews of the different actors (teachers, students, producers, advisors, public officials, others).