Scientific reductionism and its repercussions on the teaching-learning process
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higher education, civil engineering, traditional teaching methods, scientific reductionismAbstract
Scientists from different disciplines have striven to develop new epistemological concepts to formulate theories that facilitate a better understanding of reality. They seek, with a reformist approach, to merge the analytical vocation of positivist science with the transdisciplinary and challenging vocation of substantive philosophy to give way to the Complexity Paradigm. The objective is to know the manifestations and repercussions of scientific reductionism in the teaching-learning process in the Civil Engineering career at the Technical University of Manabí, the bibliographic review, the inductive method and a qualitative investigation were used, resulting in the identification of the research problem.
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