Universitary practices: an integrated perspective

Abstract

Based on the experience in the Especialización en Docencia Universitaria Seminar “Políticas de articulación, docencia, investigación, extensión y transferencia”, we reflect about obstacles or limitations that arise along the pathway to an education modality with an integrated perspective in the University. We propose a workshop where practical, academic and extra-academic knowledge could be integrated in order to study and reach solutions to real-life problems. The workshop could be incorporated in the curriculum of any university career. A learning space designed within Problem Based Learning (PBL), where students face a problem to be solved before knowing the theory: working out the solutions leads the learning experience. We believe in the turning of the social imaginarium or assumptions about exclusive bodies of knowledge to a complementary vision of the different specific disciplines, redefining the idea of boundaries towards an  integrated and broader perspective. This could contribute to the development of cooperative learning in order to strengthen the students' bond both with an academic community within a genuinely public and democratic educational system, and with the society they would be interacting in, in pursuit of a plural and more democratic society.