transdisciplinarity, dialogue and socio-environmental justice: challenges for an “outgoing...
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TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, DIALOGUE AND SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE: CHALLENGES FOR AN “OUTGOING ACADEMIA”
(Reflection and Practices in Faculty Development for Mission)
Jesuit ConferenceExpanding the Jesuit Higher Education Network - Collaboration for Social Justice
ACU - Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, July 7-10, 2015
José Ivo FOLLMANN, sj – UNISINOS, Brazil
There is a big gap between
the real needs of society and
what are the conditions existing in higher education concerning: production of knowledge, training of professionals.
This doubles in importance and urgency when we put on the horizon the building of sustainable societies.
Like a jesuit, engaged 42 years at the university
life, my personnal dream for higher education is
to be a real contribution for building sustainable
societies.
For that I’m convinced of the importance of
transdisciplinary culture, dialogue, social and
environmental justice commitment.
If our dream is to have a sustainable society, namely: with a permanent technological innovation and with the establishment of guarantees of social and environmental sustainability, viewing balanced survival of the society and the environment, now and in the future, citizens and professionals of this
society must undergo a process of consistent training
and the system in which this formative process takes place must be its booster.
Disciplines
Multidisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity
INSIDE OF ACADEMIA OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA
+ +
Market logics; practical knowledges and innovations; common sense; affective dynamics; movements; values and beliefs; arts; religious traditions.
Human relationships of recognition and appreciation
of the different
Relations in the field of work, social and technological
innovations and in regard of access to goods
Relations with the environment
A protected world... A ground of socio-environmental challenges.
TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, EXTENSION AND UNIVERSITY’S SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY
THREE KEY PURPOSES OF THE UNIVERSITY (in Brazilian Constitution): TEACHING, RESEARCH AND EXTENSION.
To guarantee a real integration of EXTENSION with TEACHING and RESEARCH, a good way is changing the perspective:
from EXTENSION OF UNIVERSITY
to UNIVERSITY OF EXTENSION (“outgoing academia”)
University’s Social Responsability and Transdisciplinarity are twoo key concepts for this change.
Disciplines
Multidisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity
INSIDE OF ACADEMIA OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIATRANSDISCIPLINARITY SPACE
+ +
Market logics; practical knowledges and innovations; common sense; affective dynamics; movements; values and beliefs; arts; religious traditions.
Human relationships of recognition and appreciation
of the different
Relations in the field of work, social and technological
innovations and in regard of access to goods
Relations with the environment
To learn and produce knownledge in dialogue with the ground of the ongoing world - society.
DIMENSIONS OF UNIVERSITARIAN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
• the educational (academic life in their teaching-learning process),
• the epistemological and cognoscitive (academic life in its process of knowledge production),
• the organizational (academic life in its organizational management and internal administrative),
• the social (academic life in its social commitment),
• the environmental (academic life in its environmental commitment).
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management Knowle
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Environmental
commitment
AUSJAL
UNIVERSITY OF EXTENSION
In a society whose quantity and quality of life relies on increasingly complex configurations of knowledge, the legitimacy of the University will only be fulfilled when activities, today said extension, are so deepened that they disappear as such and will be an integral part of the research and teaching activities.
(BOAVENTURA DE SOUZA SANTOS)
PRACTICES:
Teachers, Students and Outside Academia Actors
BOOSTING KNOWNLEDGE IN TRANSDISCIPLINARITY’ SPACES
(learning forms of being na “outgoing academia”)
GDIREC and NEABI - Interreligious dialogue and ethnico-racial education programs at UNISINOS.
Examples of transdisciplinarity’ space: (1) boosting knowledge in human relationships of recognition and appreciation of the
different
Examples of transdisciplinarity’ space: (2) boosting knowledge in relations with the environment.
PASEC - Communitarian socio-educational program at UNISINOS
Examples of transdisciplinarity’ space: (3) boosting knowledge in building new social technologies in work’s organizations
TECNOSOCIAIS: different programs of work’s popular organizations in social and solidary economics, at UNISINOS
Examples of transdisciplinarity’ space: (4) boosting knowledge in building technology innovations
UNITEC/TECNOSINOS: technology and applied research, enterprise incubator, start ups, technological park at UNISINOS
Examples of transdisciplinarity’ space: (5) boosting knowledge by dialogues in presencial classes, with 180 hs of Formation in
Humanities
All our students in all undergraduate, are concerned to course three disciplines: • Ethics; • Anthropology;• Latin America Historical and
Cultural Cotext.
FHOC – Formação Humanística de Orientação Cristã
(There are very interesting and creative experiences in the fields of dialogue concerning relations with the environment, human relationships of
recognition and appreciation of the different and concerning social and public policy, popular organizations. and social-solidary economics. )
Examples of transdisciplinarity’ space: (6) boosting knowledge by dialogues, studies, diffusion, concerning ethics, frontiers of science
and human life
IHU – INSTITUTO HUMANITAS UNISINOS: different programs for thematic studies and dialogues at UNISINOS
Thank you!jifm
UNISINOS – Universidade do Vale do Rio dos SinosA Brazilian Jesuit University – South Brazil
www.unisinos.br