Spaces for intercultural and transdisciplinary learning in a transforming society

Abstract

The article meditates on how knowledge and social practices are related, and on the “what for” of purpose one wishes to know. It undertañes the subject of transdisciplinarity, identifying in day to day activity the strategies which can help that new generations can live along with their ideas, without being destroyed by them. On that purpose, the Law of Communitary Services for University Students in Venezuela  is analyzed as an exploration of the spaces oriented to encourage intercultural and transdisciplinary learning. The analysis ends stating that in order to make a contribution on changing the socio-institutional structures towards endogenous development, this law should affect the capacity of some IES –called as those of “social capital” to articulate with other Public Administration actions, also oriented to this political intentionality, in nowaday Venezuela, of generating social inclussion under the figure of a public action known as “The Missions”.