From a Disciplinary to a Transdisciplinary Vision of the University: A Space of Knowledge, Culture, Art, Spirituality, and Life

Abstract

How does one understand the University situation today?  Is the disciplinary paradigm viable?  What are the consequences of this paradigm? In my paper, I give one answer to these questions and review, from my own academic experience in a Mexican University (Veracruzana University), strategies like Complex Thought (Edgar Morin) and Transdisciplinarity (Basarab Nicolescu) to af- firm the urgency of moving from a one-disciplinary vision to another–transdisciplinary. I maintain that only with this change will the University, especially in Latin-America, be able to offer an integral education in which both professors and students may solve real-world problems effectively and affectively. Only in this way will the University contribute to a genuine social transformation