In Search Of An Elusive Object: Interdisciplinary Teaching In Secondary School From The Teaching Perspective

Abstract

Although interdisciplinary education (EID) constitutes a component that is omnipresent in the educational reform initiatives in Argentina, little is known about its translation for the real school environment. This article seeks to explore the implementation of EID in educational centers of medium education from the perspective of two teachers, focusing on shared meanings when using curricular and didactic constructs to place this teaching in practice. This search is based on interviews with professors responsible for interdisciplinary curricular spaces in three educational centers of medical education in the city of Buenos Aires. The article explains the ways in which teachers use their repertoire of practical knowledge available to make sense of the urgency of EID and discover that their didactic and curricular constructions lead to a set of specific material and symbolic conditions.