Indissociability in the University Setting. Fragments of an experience

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14244/198271991084

This paper discusses the complex, tense and precarious connection between teaching, research and academic extension actions from the perspective of indissociability as a necessary condition for the academic training to break down the production of endogenous knowledge that is distant from social reality and disconnected from other types of knowledge. These writings are based on an experience developed by the authors, initially to meet demands for non-school educational practices in the academic extension setting, which advanced to solidarity economy. Since academic extension is a space of dialogue between university and community, as well as a place for the production of valid knowledge, we rely on its transgressive nature as an opportunity to join the sociability of ordinary men and women with their everyday knowledge, leading to the consequent and necessary problematization of what is taught and what is learned in higher education. Such experience has later become a Solidarity Economy Incubator and has produced effects on the teaching staff and the student body that were noticed both in teaching, research and academic extension practices and within the university itself as knowledge moving  interdisciplinarity towards transdisciplinarity with the support of the solidarity economy movement, more specifically the theme of solidarity.

Keywords: University, Indissociability, Transdisciplinarity.