Global environmental deterioration demands the involvement of the academic community. Ecosystem management is a discipline within ecology that is especially concerned about doing interdisciplinary research in order to solve environmental problems. However, it is not clear what interdisciplinary work means, what its purpose is, and how it is practiced among ecosystem management researchers. The research presented in this dissertation has the goal of understanding ecosystem management researchers perspectives and practices concerning interdisciplinarity. It uses a pragmatic framework and a sequential mixed-methods research design to accomplish three particular objectives. First, it investigates the use of the term interdisciplinarity in the ecosystem management literature by evaluating citations and abstracts of 129 peer-reviewed, English language, journal articles via bibliometric analysis. Second, it explores the definition of interdisciplinarity among ecosystem management researchers by surveying 119 individuals using on-line questionnaires. Finally, it examines interdisciplinary perspectives among ecosystem management researchers by interviewing 15 key informants using semi-structured telephone interviews. Results show that ecosystem management researchers share a common understanding of what interdisciplinarity is. However, they are not especially concerned about discussing theoretical considerations of the concept of interdisciplinarity and its practice. In the context of the opportunities and challenges interdisciplinary work presents for the ecosystem management field, the research discusses the role of a deeper engagement with theories of interdisciplinarity. It encourages theoretical discussions of interdisciplinary work among ecosystem management researchers in order to enhance effective interdisciplinary research efforts and promote further contributions of ecosystem management to solving environmental problems.

Η εργασία έχει ως θέμα τους εκπαιδευτικούς και την πρόκληση της καινοτομίας, με έμφαση στην περίπτωση της διαθεματικότητας. Σκοπός ήταν η ανάδειξη της σημασίας της εισαγωγής καινοτομιών στο ελληνικό δημοτικό σχολείο. Μέσα από την έρευνα, μελετάμε τις απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών σχετικά με την διαδικασία εισαγωγής καινοτομιών στο σχολείο και επιχειρούμε αναδείξουμε τη σημασία της. Εξετάζουμε τις πεποιθήσεις των εκπαιδευτικών του Ν.Ηλείας σχετικά με την έννοια της καινοτομίας όπως την αντιλαμβάνονται αυτοί ως άμεσα εμπλεκόμενοι με τη διαδικασία της μάθησης. Παράλληλα διερευνώνται οι παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν την εισαγωγή καινοτομιών στο σχολείο μέσω του παραδείγματος της διαθεματικής προσέγγισης της γνώσης καθώς και οι μέθοδοι που χρησιμοποιούνται κατά τη διδασκαλία ενός διαθεματικού προγράμματος. Η μελέτη αυτή δεν θα είχε ολοκληρωθεί χωρίς τη συμπαράσταση, την υποστήριξη και την ενθάρρυνση του επιβλέποντος καθηγητή κ.Παντελή Κυπριανού, ο οποίος με τις συμβουλές και την καθοδήγησή του διευκόλυνε την ολοκλήρωσή της. Τον ευχαριστώ θερμά. Επίσης, ευχαριστίες οφείλω σε όλους τους διευθυντές και εκπαιδευτικούς που συμμετείχαν και βοήθησαν στην ερευνητική διαδικασία. / This paper aims at highlighting the importance of introducing innovations in elementary school. The starting point for dealing with my issue was my personal contact with innovative activities as a practicing teacher. The trigger was my involvement in various individual small innovative school programs. The so far failed reforms with regard to achieving the much desired improvement of the educational system raises the requirement for a gradual change of schools aiming at improving their structure, organization and operation. Both the flexibility and adaptability of innovation to the needs of each school make it an effective means to achieve improvement. However, through my experience I believe that the presence of complex problems hinder the success and reduce the effectiveness of innovation moving away from the goal. Sample of the research was consisted of 129 primary school teachers in the prefecture of Ilia and as a means of data collection used a questionnaire including (6) recordings of the profile questions of teachers and (24) total questions and sub-questions relating to the research questions of the study. The questionnaire emerged from initial interviews held with some teachers as well as pilot in (19) teachers in order to test both the validity of the content and the structure of its questions. In this study we investigated the following research questions: • What are the opinions of teachers on the content of the term "innovation" and which features do they attach to this? • Which factors according to their teachers affect the introduction of innovations in school? • What are the perceptions of teachers for Interdisciplinary innovation and which methods and techniques do they use in teaching in an interdisciplinary program implementation? Finally given the analyses that include the comparison of answers between men and women, as well as the conclusions from the research in the schools and proposals for further research.

Esta pesquisa apresenta a obra Memorial do Cristo, de autoria de Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, em seus dois volumes: Eu Venho e Eu, Jesus. Esses dois livros juntos narram uma única história, a autobiografia de Jesus Cristo. Esta tese discute os aspectos lingüísticos e literários, sendo focalizados principalmente o léxico que caracteriza a intertextualidade com a Bíblia, o campo semântico e a estrutura sintático-gramatical. Um capítulo foi dedicado ao estudo de fatos relativos à vida da autora por influenciarem de forma significativa o seu estilo / This research presents Memorial do Cristo, by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, in its two volumes: Eu Venho e Eu, Jesus. These books together present one single story, Jesus Christs autobiography. This thesis discusses the linguistic and literary textual aspects, focusing mainly on the lexicon that characterizes the intertextuality with the Bible, the semantic field and the syntactic and grammatical structure. One chapter has been dedicated to facts of the life of the author because they have significantly influenced her style

This dissertation centres upon the learning processes and social norms associated with two distinct strands of economic thinking – one loosely heterodox and the other mainstream, or “neo-classical.” My intention is to examine the learning processes and consequent beliefs of a range of Canadian economists, especially macroeconomists. To achieve this goal, I have undertaken a number of comparative case studies within the Canadian context. These have generated data from a survey of 100 academic economists as well as a series of in-depth interviews with 58 Canadian economists across the political and methodological spectra. My results have drawn from the contributions of a total of 158 respondents. This thesis aims to examine economics education in the Canadian context, charting the rise of neoclassical economics from the 1970s onwards while examining the educational processes, choice of language, social norms, and views of human nature to be found among a variety of Canadian economists with differing political orientations. This may help to identify the role economics education has played in shaping the economic landscape in Canada, and how Canadian economists’ learning processes have emphasised or minimised certain assumptions about public policy and human nature that differ from what is taught – implicitly or explicitly – elsewhere. In a field that is, among the social sciences, by far the most resistant to knowledge from other disciplines, Canadian academic economists are by all appearances global outliers. My research suggests that they are significantly more open to knowledge from other disciplines than groups of economists elsewhere; relative to American academic economists, they are almost twice as likely to believe that interdisciplinary knowledge is better than knowledge generated from a single field, and the older cohorts surpass even U.S. sociologists in this regard. My research also suggests that social norms may have a more profound effect on economists’ beliefs than their formal education in economics, and that historical and institutional factors – especially during economists’ formative years – may have a life-long impact on Canadian economists’ political beliefs. There also appear to be educational, geographical, and cohort-related effects on economists’ beliefs that, together with the effects of Canadian social norms, combine to form an image of a discipline that is less polarised, more pro-interdisciplinarity, and substantially more accepting of a role for government in economic policy than that of their economist brethren in the U.S.

Devido a uma preocupação com a qualidade do ensino contábil no Brasil, este estudo permitiu verificar que as atuais Diretrizes Curriculares do Curso de Ciências Contábeis possuem uma visão de preparar os alunos para enfrentar as rápidas mudanças do mercado. Além disso, o estudo favorece a constatação que, de acordo com esta visão, o termo interdisciplinaridade é citado diversas vezes no documento. Observa-se que o conceito é complexo e entendido de diferentes formas pelos autores da área educacional. Constata-se que existem os que entendem o conceito como um tipo de pesquisa, os que defendem como um nível de relacionamento entre as disciplinas e os que assumem ser uma atitude. O objetivo geral do trabalho foi verificar a existência de características interdisciplinares no ensino e na pesquisa dos cursos de graduação em Ciências Contábeis. A pesquisa foi dividida em três partes: na primeira, pesquisou-se, compilou-se e discutiu-se, por meio de uma revisão da bibliografia educacional, o conceito de interdisciplinaridade no ensino e na pesquisa; na segunda, pesquisou-se, compilou-se e discutiu-se, por meio de dados secundários, as características do ensino e da pesquisa contábil no Brasil; na terceira, realizou-se um censo dos coordenadores dos cursos superiores de Ciências Contábeis da cidade de São Paulo que participaram do Exame Nacional de Cursos de 2003, contrastando os dados primários com os conceitos sobre interdisciplinaridade encontrados. As duas hipóteses da pesquisa para a população analisada foram comprovadas, ou seja, há indícios de que o nível de relacionamento entre as disciplinas é baixo e da inexistência de características interdisciplinares no ensino e na pesquisa contábil. Recomenda-se maior atenção por parte das instituições para essas características, aumentando as formas organizadas de incentivo à pesquisa na graduação, aproximando os alunos de cursos diferentes, criando lógicas de distribuição das disciplinas em que um assunto seja mais ou tão importante quanto o cumprimento dos conteúdos. Para futuras pesquisas, são apresentadas sugestões: (i) uma extensão desta pesquisa para outros Municípios, Estados ou até mesmo para o Brasil como um todo; (ii) a escolha de um dos blocos de características analisadas para um aprofundamento; (iii) a utilização de outras técnicas de coleta de dados; (iv) a análise dos Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso dos cursos de graduação em Ciências Contábeis; e (v) um quadro comparativo entre e Brasil e outros países (e.g., EUA). / In regards to the concerning of the accounting education quality in Brazil, this study allowed to establish that the current Curricular Lines of the Accounting Course have a vision to prepare the pupils to face the fast changes of the market. Moreover the study benefits the evidence that in accordance with this vision the term interdisciplinarity is quoted many times in the document. It observes that the concept is complex and it is understood in different forms by the authors of the educational area. It verifies that there are the ones that understand the concept as a type of research, the ones that defend as a level of relationship among the disciplines and the ones that assume to be an attitude. The general aim of the work was to verify the existence of interdisciplinary characteristics in the education and in the research of the Accounting graduation courses. The research was divided in three parts: in the first one, it was searched, compiled and argued by means of a review of the educational bibliography the concept of interdisciplinarity in education and in the research; in the second, it was searched, compiled and argued by means of secondary data the characteristics of the education and the accounting research in Brazil; in the third, a census of the coordinators of the Accounting superior courses of Sao Paulo city that took part of the 2003 National Examination Courses became fulfilled contrasting the primary data with the concepts found on interdisciplinarity. The two hypotheses of the research for the analyzed population were proved, in other words, there are signs that the level of relationship among the disciplines are low and the inexistence of interdisciplinary characteristics in the education and in the accounting research. It recommends larger attention on the part of the institutions for these characteristics, increasing the organized forms of incentive to the research in the graduation level, bringing together the pupils of different courses, creating logics of distribution where the subject be more or so important as the fulfillment of the contents. For future researches suggestions are offered: (i) an extension of this research to other Cities, States or even for Brazil as a hole; (ii) the choice of a deepening analysis for one of the blocks analyzed; (iii) the use of other techniques for data collection; (iv) the analysis of the Conclusion Course Works of the graduation level in Accounting; and (v) a comparative picture between Brazil and some other country. (United States for example).

Esta pesquisa apresenta a obra Memorial do Cristo, de autoria de Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, em seus dois volumes: Eu Venho e Eu, Jesus. Esses dois livros juntos narram uma única história, a autobiografia de Jesus Cristo. Esta tese discute os aspectos lingüísticos e literários, sendo focalizados principalmente o léxico que caracteriza a intertextualidade com a Bíblia, o campo semântico e a estrutura sintático-gramatical. Um capítulo foi dedicado ao estudo de fatos relativos à vida da autora por influenciarem de forma significativa o seu estilo / This research presents Memorial do Cristo, by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, in its two volumes: Eu Venho e Eu, Jesus. These books together present one single story, Jesus Christs autobiography. This thesis discusses the linguistic and literary textual aspects, focusing mainly on the lexicon that characterizes the intertextuality with the Bible, the semantic field and the syntactic and grammatical structure. One chapter has been dedicated to facts of the life of the author because they have significantly influenced her style

Dissertação(mestrado)- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação, 2011. / Submitted by Caroline Silva (krol_bilhar@hotmail.com) on 2012-08-10T14:44:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao maria anglica arocha da silva.pdf: 556991 bytes, checksum: 39b877883664bf9d061eaab0f0b3ad57 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Bruna Vieira(bruninha_vieira@ibest.com.br) on 2012-08-24T02:47:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao maria anglica arocha da silva.pdf: 556991 bytes, checksum: 39b877883664bf9d061eaab0f0b3ad57 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-24T02:47:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao maria anglica arocha da silva.pdf: 556991 bytes, checksum: 39b877883664bf9d061eaab0f0b3ad57 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo compreender a concepção do grupo de professores de Geografia do Colégio Municipal Pelotense - Pelotas/RS, a respeito da interdisciplinaridade. Os procedimentos metodológicos contaram como o uso da revisão bibliográfica, entrevistas semi-estruturadas e análise documental. A pesquisa foi realizada com quatro professores, que atuam com as séries finais do ensino fundamental, e com a coordenadora pedagógica da área de Geografia. Para se estabelecer a respeito de que proposta interdisciplinar se está partindo, o estudo é focado no pensamento de Paulo Freire, portanto a interdisciplinaridade foi abordada, na perspectiva inicial, de uma educação que procure entender o conhecimento como um todo e não somente em partes fragmentadas. Desta forma, possibilitando a ações dos sujeitos envolvidos de maneira a integrar os diferentes conhecimentos científicos entre si, somando às múltiplas realidades dos indivíduos. O diálogo sobre esta proposta metodológica direcionou a discussão de categorias que melhor explicariam essa concepção, encontrando desta forma, as categorias coletividade, tempo e avaliação como propulsoras da interpretação das entrevistas com os professores. Assim, a concepção dos professores de Geografia a respeito deste assunto, mostrou que eles entendem esta proposta metodológica como importante e fundamental para a compreensão mais totalizadora dos alunos acerca dos conteúdos desenvolvidos, mas que ainda há muitos limites que podem estar sendo superados e possibilidades de vencer estas limitações buscando, deste modo, alcançar o inédito viável. / This research aims to understand the concept of the group of teachers of Geography in the College Hall Pelotense - Pelotas / RS, about interdisciplinarity. The methodological procedures counted as the use of literature review, semi-structured interviews and document analysis. The survey was conducted with four teachers who work with the upper grades of elementary school, and the educational coordinator of the area of Geography. To establish the interdisciplinary approach to what you are leaving, the study focuses on the thinking of Paulo Freire, so interdisciplinary has been addressed in the initial perspective, an education that seeks to understand knowledge as a whole and not only in fragmented parts . Thus, allowing the actions of individuals involved in order to integrate the different scientific knowledge among themselves, adding to the multiple realities of individuals. The dialogue on this methodological approach focused discussion of categories that better explain this concept, finding this way, the community categories, and assessment as driving time of the interviews with teachers. Thus, the notion of geography teachers on this subject, showed that they understand this proposal as an important methodological and fundamental to understanding more about the totalizing of the students developed content, but there are still many limitations that could have been overcome and opportunities seeking to overcome these limitations, thus achieving the untested feasibility.

A presente pesquisa estuda arte e moda buscando relacionar as duas áreas de conhecimento por meio das teorias interdisciplinares. A parte principal da pesquisa se concentra no estudo de três atos interdisciplinares ocorridos entre os artistas contemporâneos Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami e Vanessa Beecroft produzidos em parceria com Marc Jacobs, diretor criativo da Louis Vuitton. Esses casos de estudo foram selecionados levando em conta o encontro entre moda e arte que busca enfatizar a ação benéfica da arte no produto de moda e da moda no campo da arte. A partir desses casos são levantadas questões pertinentes aos campos da arte, do design e da moda, evidenciando a troca entre eles, em que permeiam a complexidade que demanda um processo integrativo. Há interesse em investigar a qual tipo de interdisciplinaridade cada ato interdisciplinar atende, bem como estudá-los sob um olhar filosófico, sociológico e também sob algumas teorias da arte. Entende-se que o estudo interdisciplinar da moda relacionado a outras áreas concorre para formalizar a pesquisa neste campo. / This research studied art and fashion trying to relate the two areas of knowledge through interdisciplinary theories. The main part of the research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of three acts occurring among contemporary artists Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Vanessa Beecroft produced in collaboration with Marc Jacobs, creative director of Louis Vuitton. These cases were selected taking into account the encounter between fashion and art that emphasizes the beneficial action of the art in fashion product and fashion in art. From these cases are raised issues pertaining to the fields of art, design and fashion, showing the exchange between them, in which permeate the complexity that demands an integrative process. There is interest in investigating which type of interdisciplinarity meets every act and study them under a philosophical, sociological look and also under some theories of art. It is understood that the interdisciplinary study of fashion related to other areas contributes to formalize research in this field.

Esta tese tem como intuito interpelar a abordagem literária como objeto de investigação, revelando, pelo olhar geográfico, aspectos sociais e culturais contrapostos pela categoria paisagem a partir do estudo da obra de João Cabral de Melo Neto. O objetivo é, pelo estabelecimento de um diálogo entre Geografia e Literatura no sentido de articular as reflexões cognoscíveis representativas da realidade por meio da tênue linha separativa entre a ficção e o real, perceber as paisagens geográficas pelas tessituras textuais da poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto descritas ao longo do rio Capibaribe e na cidade do Recife. Para tanto, necessário se faz a apresentação de elementos formalizadores pela mostra da abordagem de interpretação literária por meio de investigação. Esta pode revelar ao pesquisador aspectos sociais, econômicos, culturais, históricos e físicos do objeto de investigação e ele o faz com o intuito em contrapor a paisagem real e/ou ficcional. Toda narrativa é uma paisagem e a paisagem narra, neste sentido, analisando as paisagens pela Literatura é possível explorar diversas possibilidades de estudo nos meandros da interdisciplinaridade. Esta análise interdisciplinar é possível porque traça as (dis)similitudes reveladas entre as paisagens percebidas pelos leitores e a carga subjetiva circundada nas cenas miméticas de realidades descritas nos textos literários. O procedimento metodológico está proposto a partir de uma análise da perspectiva da crítica literária como direcionamento contextual para a produção do conhecimento, este recurso faculta ao pesquisador diversas possibilidades para apresentar uma solução a um determinado problema. A busca parte das leituras da poética com enfoques para um diálogo entre a Geografia e a Literatura. Especialmente, estudando a categoria paisagem como formadora da construção do imaginário das cenas cabralinas do Recife e às margens do rio Capibaribe. A escrita lança um olhar geográfico ao conteúdo ficcional literário, este arcabouço poético pode, também como fonte histórica, oferecer experiência, aproximando-nos da realidade e conduzindo-nos a flagrantes das relações nas tramas que nos dão sustentação para lermos e percebermos a paisagem, seja ela real ou ficcional. As descrições do poeta deixam impressas marcas que evidenciam cenas de questões sociais e ambientais, que podem ser percebidas nos poemas Morte e vida severina, O rio: ou a relação da viagem que faz o Capibaribe de sua nascente à cidade do Recife e O cão sem plumas, indicando ao pesquisador novos olhares para observar o mundo. É neste sentido que este trabalho traça um percurso teórico sobre a paisagem para desvelar as percepções das relações descritas nos poemas cabralinos. Assim, as pesquisas que estabelecem o diálogo entre a Geografia e a Literatura contribuem para a compreensão das dinâmicas espaciais. / This thesis aims at the interpellation of the literary approach as an object of investigation, revealing, through the geographic view, social and cultural aspects contrasted by the landscape category. The objective is, establishing a dialogue between Geography and Literature in order to articulate the knowable reflections representative of reality through the tenuous line separating between fiction and the real, to perceive the geographical landscapes by the textual fabric of the poetics of João Cabral de Melo Neto described along the Capibaribe River and in the city of Recife. For that, it is necessary to present formalizing elements by showing the approach of literary interpretation through of research. It can reveal to the researcher the social, economic, cultural, historical and physical aspects of the research object and he does so in order to counteract the real and/or fictional landscape. Every narrative is a landscape and the landscape narrates, in this sense, analyzing the landscapes through Literature, it is possible to explore various possibilities of study in the meanders of interdisciplinarity. This interdisciplinary analysis is possible because it traces the (dis)similarities revealed between the landscapes perceived by the readers and the subjective load surrounded in the mimetic scenes of realities described in the literary texts. The methodological procedure is proposed from an analysis of the perspective of literary criticism as contextual aim for the production of knowledge, this resource gives the researcher several possibilities to present a solution to a given problem. The search starts from the poetics readings with approaches to a dialogue between Geography and literature. Especially, studying the landscape category as a way of constructing the imagery of the cabralina scenes of Recife and the banks of the Capibaribe River. The writing casts a fictional literary content, this poetic framework can, also as a historical source, offer experience, approaching reality and leading us to flagrant relationships in the plots that give us support to read and perceive the landscape, whether real or fictional. The poet\'s descriptions leave imprinted marks that show scenes of social and environmental issues, they can be seen in the poems Morte e vida severina, O rio: ou a relação da viagem que faz o Capibaribe de sua nascente à cidade do Recife and O Cão sem plumas, indicating to the researcher new looks to observe the world. In this sense, it is that this paper traces a theoretical course on the landscape to unveil the perceptions of the relations described in the cabralinos poems. Thus, the researches that establish the dialogue between Geography and Literature contribute to the understanding of spatial dynamics.

A interdisciplinaridade e a interprofissionalidade são componentes essenciais da Gerontologia e do trabalho em equipe no atendimento de saúde do idoso. Entretanto, dificuldades podem surgir para a real implementação destes conceitos na prática gerontológica. Este estudo visou levantar as percepções de uma equipe de profissionais que atua em um ambulatório especializado no atendimento gerontológico a respeito da interdisciplinaridade e da interprofissionalidade em sua formação e cotidiano de trabalho com idosos. Trata-se de pesquisa descritiva, de natureza qualitativa, sob influência de alguns pressupostos alinhados à hermenêutica gadameriana. O instrumento utilizado para coleta dos dados foi um questionário semiestruturado desenvolvido pela pesquisadora e a realização de um grupo focal. Os dados foram categorizados por meio da técnica de análise de conteúdo proposta por Minayo. Participaram da pesquisa 21 profissionais de diferentes áreas de formação, que responderam o questionário que continha perguntas sobre suas percepções e sobre o contato que tiveram com os conceitos em sua formação acadêmica e profissional. Dentre estes profissionais, 12 vivenciaram o grupo focal para discussão sobre o tema. Os principais resultados apontaram que estes profissionais conseguem enxergar a importância da interdisciplinaridade e da interprofissionalidade em sua atuação profissional, mesmo que alguns deles tenham dificuldades em definir os conceitos, sendo que os que manifestaram tal dificuldade tinham um maior tempo de experiência na atuação gerontológica. Apontaram ainda que 48% deles revelaram contato com os conceitos em sua graduação e 80% tiveram durante sua pós-graduação. Os participantes também sinalizaram barreiras e fatores facilitadores para aplicar os conceitos em prática, apresentando aspectos do relacionamento com outros profissionais e questões institucionais. Frente a esses resultados percebeu-se a necessidade de observação mais próxima da prática destes profissionais visando verificar se de fato os conceitos abordados na teoria estão presentes no cuidado prestado aos idosos. Salienta-se sobre a importância do papel institucional na educação permanente destes profissionais e o compromisso ético e de responsabilidade dos mesmos em se manterem atualizados em relação aos temas centrais da gerontologia e do trabalho em equipe / Interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality are essential components of gerontology and teamwork in elderly health care. However, difficulties can arise for the real implementation of these concepts in gerontological practice. This study aims to raise the perceptions of a team of professionals who work in an outpatient clinic specialized in gerontological care regarding interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality in their training and daily work with the elderly. It is a descriptive research, of qualitative nature, under the influence of some assumptions aligned to the Gadamerian hermeneutics. The instrument used for data collection was a semi-structured questionnaire developed by the researcher and the accomplishment of a focal group. The data were categorized by means of the content analysis technique proposed by Minayo. Twenty-one professionals from different training areas participated in the study, who answered the questionnaire that contained questions about their perceptions and about the contact they had with the concepts in their academic and professional training. Among these professionals, 12 experienced the focus group to discuss the theme. The main results pointed out that these professionals can see the importance of interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality in their professional performance, even though some of them have difficulties in defining the concepts and those who manifested such difficulty had a longer experience in gerontology. They also pointed out that 48% of them revealed contact with the concepts in their graduation and 80% had during their postgraduate studies. Participants also flagged barriers and facilitating factors to apply the concepts in practice, presenting aspects of the relationship with other professionals and institutional issues. In view of these results, it was noticed the need for closer observation of the practice of these professionals in order to verify if in fact the concepts covered in the theory are present in the care given to the elderly. It is emphasized the importance of the institutional role in the permanent education of these professionals and the ethical commitment and responsibility of these professionals to keep up to date of the central themes of gerontology and teamwork