Let us dare to break old paradigms! From university and ecological economics to awareness and integration

Abstract

A critical reflection around paradigms that support higher education and economy is shared. I became aware that the paradigm that supports both is the same one, the old Newtonian-Cartesian; and the raising of awareness leads me to join the voices calling for the need to break with these old paradigms and to look at a new one, holistic and integrative. If, as teachers, we dare to break old paradigms; if, as economists, we dare to think under other approaches, proposing the ecological economics; and if such persons, we re-educate ourselves on the path of awareness and integration, then we can teach the values and approaches of the new paradigm.