Relating Digital Active Methodologies and Inter-, Multi-, and Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives: Challenges Not Answering Modern Educational Demands

Abstract

Active methodologies are proposed to allow, through social students' engagement, a new way to improve educational activities, resulting in a productive and continuous scenario where knowledge is communitarely shared. Answering social demands for a more inclusive education, the market sector, composed of public and private organizations, is enhancing the adoption of active methodologies. As in any action like these, there is a risk of focus loss, aiming more to the technologies applied than to the educational process itself. This chapter proposes a study of multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity paradigms as a source of thinking to support educational planning to adopt active methodologies, offering a robust way to plan their practice. Emerging technologies support, as resources which can favor the introductions of active methodologies are also evaluated, as they also offer a risk for planning when thought as the final objectives of these educational plans, instead of the indisputable social results of education.