Intersaber e interdisciplinaridade: tensões e criações nos bacharelados interdisciplinares na Bahia

Abstract

This thesis, titled "Intersaber and Interdisciplinarity: Tensions and Creations in Interdisciplinary Bachelor's Degrees in Bahia," arises from concerns about the ways of producing knowledge in higher education training processes. Developed within the Postgraduate Program in Knowledge Dissemination (PPGDC) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), the research investigates how interdisciplinarity is established in the Pedagogical Course Projects (PCPs) of Interdisciplinary Bachelor's Degrees (IBs) and how it is instituted in the formative practices experienced by students and faculty. The methodological approach is qualitative, exploratory, and documentary, based on Discourse Analysis. Institutional documents were analyzed and questionnaires were applied to students and graduates of the BIs at the Institute of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences Professor Milton Santos (IHAC/UFBA), articulating theoretical references and lived experiences of the subjects involved and the author's formative and teaching trajectory. The text is structured into seven sections, preceded by preludes that reveal personal experience as part of the knowledge construction process. The analyses range from the theoretical frameworks of interdisciplinarity to the public policies that underpin the creation of BIs, passing through epistemological discussions on discipline, knowledge, and know-how, as well as the tensions and emerging potentials in interdisciplinary university education. The results reveal that, although interdisciplinarity is strongly established in official documents, its experiences in formative processes point to instituting dimensions that challenge disciplinary logic. It is in this movement that the conception of INTERSABER emerges – an epistemological, political, and existential proposal that recognizes the inseparability between knowledge, body, territory, and existence. Intersaber is presented as a critical alternative to the traditional notion of interdisciplinarity, opening spaces for other ways of knowing, being, and existing in the world.