Aprendiendo a través de la interconexión de asignaturas: coordinación y transversalidad de disciplinas en la grado en Arquitectura Técnica de la EPSZ de Zamora (Universidad de Salamanca)

Abstract

[EN]In university studies and, especially, in Degrees that qualify for technical professions, among which is the Degree in Technical Architecture, the competency model demands assuming a teaching-learning method that provides to the students an approach to reality professional. To get it, it is necessary to acquire knowledge gradually but also in parallel, hence the subjects included in the training program are grouped into blocks that allow establishing an order of knowledge that ensures educational coherence and disciplinary relationship [1]. However, organizing the subjects in semesters and courses is not enough for the student to perceive a fluid, coherent and really coordinated learning that interrelates the contents and their use in the profession. We have noticed that there are two handicaps that prevent this objective from being achieved, on the one hand, the flexibility that exists for students to enroll in the subjects they want, skipping the established order, which we understand is very necessary to facilitate the understanding and learning of certain subjects; and on the other, the lack of a clear coordination that interrelates the subjects, beyond a general coordination that monitors the overlap of subjects, tests or works. Regarding the first difficulty, we cannot interfere beyond the recommendations that we include in the subject programs, so that students do not enroll in one if they have not previously passed certain other ones. However, regarding the interconnected learning of subjects, teachers have all the responsibility to propose and develop strategies, avoiding individuality and generating a transversality of disciplines, assumed as a natural principle [2]. In this feeling, which depends personally on each teacher, we have to get involved so that students find the real correspondence between the contents of different subjects as an integrated whole and do not perceive them as a sum of knowledge. Taking into account these backgrounds, this communication describes the coordination work that several professors of the Technical Architecture Degree of the EPS of Zamora of the University of Salamanca are studying in order to put it into practice, so that the students of their subjects work together unison in certain aspects, linking two or more subjects. To do this, we are going to analyze which subjects are susceptible to disciplinary transversality, and from there, we will propose the work methodology and the possible difficulties that may be encountered, focusing on global and interconnected teaching-learning.