The challenges of interdisciplinary education and its application on teaching ergonomics

Abstract

The education in Brazil is still strongly based on traditional teaching methods that reinforce a passive attitude of the student. Despite the educational guidelines indicate the need for more liberating and interdisciplinary methodologies, there are few actions for change. Within this context, interdisciplinary appears as an important tool to help the creation of a new thinking in education, proposing the connection between the parts of an area of knowledge. In this way leading the student to develop a more critical and reflective thinking about the reality of the community where he lives. Being understood ergonomics as a scientific discipline that looks for the interactions among humans and other elements of a system in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance, interdisciplinary has become essential in this process. The aim of this study was to discuss the educational foundations of interdisciplinarity and their applicability in the teaching of ergonomics in the context of Brazil.

Una Metodologia Educativa a Distancia Para Abordar El Desarrollo Sostenible Basado en El Método Científico: Un Relato De Caso en El Instituto Federal De Educación, Ciencia Y Tecnología De Rio Grande Do Norte

“…The globalized world and the rapid technological and scientific development have brought unprecedented challenges for educational systems around the planet. In this context, schools must be prepared to provide their students with a set of new skills to cope with uncertainties and a world in constant change -curiosity, imagination, resilience, selfknowledge, problem-solving, and teamwork skills, among others (BARBOSA; PINHEIRO, 2012;OECD, 2018;THIBAUT et al, 2018).…”