Teaching and Practices in Higher Education in Agroecology from the Interdisciplinary Viewpoint

Abstract

This article considers the origins and historical evolution of agroecology and its connection with the multi and interdisciplinarity, highlighting the main theoretical concepts and their epistemological and methodological bases built by classical and postmodernist thinkers through their formulations on the themes, where, despite the diversified views, agroecology in a hegemonic way is pointed out as a science under construction that seeks alternative and sustainable models for the socioeconomic, cultural, environmental and ethical development of the farmer with respect to the environment. It also brings the discussion of agroecology and interdisciplinarity into the academy in undergraduate and graduate courses in agroecology, highlighting the importance of continuing education for teachers and students, with a view to building new approaches that recognize the importance of cultural diversity and exchanges between scientific and popular knowledge. Women are identified here as protagonists of advances in the transition from conventional to agroecological agriculture, either for their participation or for the struggles undertaken in the consolidation of this system, which, in addition to production, constitutes a way of life and work.