Abstract

This text was written based on the current importance of higher education, with a universal view and from an epistemological perspective focused on the relationships between what is and what should be. It was carried out with the objective of helping to counteract mercantilism in higher education and the positivist theoretical positions that serve as its theoretical support. Consequently, it is made up of reflections on these topics and, at the same time, of theoretical elaborations around citizen education, complex thinking and interdisciplinarity because they are fields where there are ways and means to advance in achieving the objective. The inclusion of the humanities in the deployment of interdisciplinarity between disciplines of other types is emphasized. This study was carried out through classic bibliographic research and with the use of a varied bibliography, but that responds to the topic discussed, which, for the most part, is recently published.

Keywords

mercantilism, citizenship formation, interdisciplinary, positivism, complex thinking