Designing a Transdisciplinary Curriculum: educational reflections within the Inter-university Network “Red Latinoamericana para el cambio social y el aprendizaje emancipatorio”

The crisis that Basarab Nicolescu pointed out in his Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity (1996) highlights the need to reorganize the educational system of knowledge, starting from universities as places of support and dissemination of forms of research useful for promoting change actions in this day and age – during the era of the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, being closely associated with educational issues since its inception, transdisciplinarity can contribute to the development of a problematizing spirit and, therefore, help the progress of knowledge, thus allowing the creation of unexpectedly creative solutions, new possibilities, and new otherwise inaccessible horizons in fragmented and reductive visions of reality. The contribution, developed inside the "Red Latinoamericana para el cambio social y el aprendizaje emancipatorio" following the solicitations born during the 3d World Congress of Transdisciplinarity (virtual mode), reflects on the question of responding adequately to the new educational challenges currently taking place on a global level, investigating the relationship between transdisciplinarity and the innovation of university teaching.