Interdisciplinaridade: tensões e possibilidades na graduação de comunicação social.

Abstract

The object of this study is the analysis of interdisciplinary practices between teachers from the Social Communication field in a private Higher Education institution in a seaside city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The research involved 20 teachers, 80% of whom work at the aforementioned institution under class/hour contracts and 65% also perform on the market, away from the academic environment. In this scenario, we have set as our general objective, to investigate what kinds of knowledge might help, and what kinds of difficulties might hinder interdisciplinarity between research subjects in the Social Communication field, assuming that this area would be interdisciplinary by definition. The current study entails bibliographical and document research, of exploratory aspect, under the theoretical framework of Fazenda, Veiga, Franco and Morin, in which synthesis, integration and theme correlation can be elements for understanding and categorizing the training process and interdisciplinary multidimension. On the history of teaching Social Communication in Brazil, this study is based on Melo, Barbosa and Moura, besides approaching aspects on the DCNs, which are currently under a process of change. Field work has been based on Qualitative Research, with data collection through open-question questionnaire, applied within the academic environment, relying on Content Analysis approach for the end of understanding subjects discourse, and following theoretical support of Minayo, Bardon, Chizzotti, Oliveira, Franco, Ghedin and Deslandes. Findings in this study have shown the need to discuss and to structure interdisciplinary practices organization-wise. Support from the Higher Education Institution coordinators is crucial when it comes to promote planning and implementation of interdisciplinary practices on the teaching routine and also to boost teachers interdisciplinary attitude. Collective interdisciplinary attitude, mediated and supported by the organizational structure within the Institution, paves the way to improve integration between fields of study and the sprayed knowledge throughout the course itself, and towards the ultimate goal of teaching, which is to produce students knowledge. In this research we have considered that the teaching work on the interdisciplinary sense within the Social Communication field can help not only to widen perspectives but also to build new processes and to the continuous professional development for teachers which, on the integration of knowledge, also enhance their abilities as learning facilitators. From the institutional standpoint, it can also be considered that interdisciplinarity might help the Institution to keep its quality of a natural and official locus of learning and research, in order to envisage its interest to train teachers and students to strengthen educational and social relations.