The cross-cutting themes, a variant for interdisciplinarity in the angolan university context

Abstract

The reality of current Angolan society, and beyond, requires a profissional who has a comprehensive knowledge, which goes beyond the academic disciplines provided in universities. The traditional didactics that characterizes teaching in our universities limits the fulfillment of this objective, because the real concern of many higher education institutions ends up not being configured with the mission of educating citizens for a future of social interaction in harmony with the sociocultural environment. Interdisciplinarity, as a didactic tool, enables the concretion of a holistic thought, but the barriers that impose the disciplinary and non-pedagogical training of many Angolan university professors, and the lack of institutional strategies to facilitate the exchange between them, are, among others, limiting to achieve interdisciplinarity, although there are not many examples that explain their practice in higher education. This article bases on the feasibility and pertinence of the assumption of the transversal axes as an appropriate way to the Angolan university context, to achieve interdisciplinarity, give significance to the content and form a holistic view of the sociocultural environment in Angolan university students. The link between academic content and the sociocultural environment constitutes a variant in this sense from the transversal axes (as institutional policy).