The text discusses interdisciplinarity as a contemporary movement, present in epistemological and pedagogical dimensions. This movement is marking a break with the Cartesian and mechanist vision of the world and education and, at the same time, assuming a more integrated, dialectic and totalizing conception in the construction of knowledge and in pedagogic practice. To begin with, I make a brief presentation of the historical origin of the movement and discuss aspects of its conceptualization and its implications in the field of different contemporary sciences before presenting interdisciplinarity as an important phenomenon of the articulation of the teaching-learning process. The argument presented in the text seeks to emphasize that the interdisciplinarity movement can profoundly transform the quality of school education by means of its teaching processes.
interdisciplinarity; science; education; teaching-learning process; knowledge