The growing global affliction of ‘inhumanism’ is shaking our surroundings. Landscapes of resource extraction, agroindustrial production, energy and information circulation, waste management and geopolitical strategies, also known as Operational Landscapes, has made it an urgent necessity to reclaim human agency and accountability to resist environmental and social collapse driven by contemporary capitalist geopolitics and biotechnologies of control. This report utilizes a rural place far north - Gállok, situated in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County, as a case study to explore alternative methods of being present on and representing place. Site-writing, as a methodology is used to test as well as to inform the structure of this thesis and its research. Through the site-writings of Gállok a set of acts (I-V ) serves as parallel narratives to the scientific research, emphasizing the importance of each chapter of the report. Gállok was chosen as case to highlight the challenging relationship between a place and its embodiments, to the broader environmental and socio-political context as it potentially faces a completely new and challenging function, as a mining site. The research aims to explore and reveal the impacts that human-orchestrated use of space has on nature, why these impacts occur and how they can be rethought through transdisciplinary approaches. Through the design project, the layers that are part of a place are the layers that are part of Gállok, as a place, are further explored, as how disturbances affect the layers among themselves, to finally speculate on how an increased understanding of the embedded layers and their conditions can influence architecture and urban and regional planning processes. The design project, called The Air We Breathe, focuses on air and its quality as one of the most important common denominators for all life on Earth, yet a system that we, through anthropocentrism, are destroying to our own detriment.  The idea of this essay and the design project is not to provide any solutions, but rather to start a discussion in the matter. The vision is to acknowledge as much as possible given the limited time for the thesis. With a personal goal to explore alternative ways of communicating and representing the findings, this thesis is my way to practice research by design and design by research, using architecture as my main tool.

Current debates on space reveal a dichotomy between two apparently conflicting understandings of space: on the one hand, space is understood as a physical, tangible entity that has an impact on how we perceive, feel and emotionally inhabit the world, and on the other hand, space is conceived as an abstract entity, suggesting that space has no active role (a productivity) within everyday life, being solely a conceptual product of intellectual reasoning. As a result, the commonly used word: ‘space’, will be discussed as an ontologically paradoxical, ambiguous and elusive concept; a concept that cannot be captured within a single definition. This thesis consequently researches the ontology of space by informing a framework that embraces the complexity of space as an ambiguous and unrepresentable entity. It aims to reconcile the multiple understandings of space, liberating it from the binary thinking that opposes the abstract to the physical, disclosing its potential productivity. This thesis thus proposes a methodology departing from a transdisciplinary approach that addresses the variability, multiplicity, paradoxicality and ambiguity of space through a ‘bastard’ epistemology that defies binary logic by considering what falls out of order and norm. To research an ontology through a bastard epistemology is to work outside of (but in combination with) the intelligible and sensible realms, through a framework that is non-representational, but instead enactive and performative, driven by experience, affect and aesthetics; thus allowing access to an entity that is both ambiguous and also unrepresentable. In doing so, this thesis argues that space is diversely implicated in the constitution of research methodologies through its interactions with order and structures, as well as agential in the constitution of understandings of human interactions with the world; and therefore, it will be argued, space has methodological purchase. The consequence of this methodological purchase is that space can reveal itself if a research strategy is implemented that works through the multiple dimensions of space. Within this context the diagram will be introduced as a productive path because enables a bastard epistemology to work through the multiplicity of space, since the diagram, is a performed, materialised outcome of multiple experiences of the making of order through the interaction between physical and conceptual dimensions. In synthesis, the diagram is used to recursively research an ontology of space, showing the main contribution of this thesis: of how without negating its complexity and multiplicity, space can be useful, constructive and productive within contemporary contexts of research methodologies.

The extent to which the knowledge mobilisation potential of public health networks is actually achieved in their functioning has not been previously studied. There are prescriptions from policy documents and from research literature as to the form networks in health should take and the way they should operate. However, there has been little research connecting the nature of the networks and the manner in which they function to their knowledge mobilising ability. Constituted in 2006, the Scottish Public Health Network (ScotPHN), which is the primary vehicle in Scotland for mobilising public health knowledge and informing policy and practice, constitutes the location for this study investigating this knowledge mobilisation and how networks function in public health. Feedback from the consultation conducted prior to the formation of ScotPHN was obtained. Interviews were conducted with the members of the ScotPHN steering group, a project group and the stakeholder group. Two ScotPHN steering group meetings were also attended by the author as an observer. The consultation feedback, transcripts of the interviews and those of steering group meetings were analysed using the constructivist version of the grounded theory approach. The process involved coding and abstracting codes to categories and themes. The emerging themes were reviewed in the light of existing literature on networks and knowledge mobilisation. These themes were then used to develop a model to understand how the network operates and consequently mobilises knowledge. The study shows that prior to its formation ScotPHN was expected to address the fragmentation of the public health workforce; significantly enhance links amongst existing public health networks; support ground level knowledge exchange amongst practitioners and significantly enhance multisectorial working. None of these expectations appear to have been met. ScotPHN has, however, managed to fill the gap left by the demise of the Scottish Needs Assessment Programme (SNAP). ScotPHN’s structure and the manner in which it is controlled lead to it being akin to a policy community rather than an issue network. The generic public health concerns of the steering group and the selective nature of the project group prevent it from functioning as an issue network. The dominance of people from the medical profession also causes a social closedness in the ScotPHN steering group. The limited multisectorial participation in its activities results in: a lack of constructionist learning; limited inclusion of the social context of knowledge; and a deficit of Mode 2 knowledge mobilisation. In the context of knowledge conversion there is some evidence of externalisation but no socialisation. ScotPHN is not a network that can be classed as a community of practice. This study highlights how health policies, which have advocated the establishment of networks, could derive considerable guidance from research into how networks actually function. With respect to the knowledge mobilisation activity of these networks the study finds that top-down and prescribed structures are unable to capture the transdisciplinarity and diverse intellectual frameworks that contribute to public health knowledge. It is seen that the hierarchical network structures can undermine the engagement of actors from the less represented sectors. Additionally the study finds that the established patterns of professional power and control further hinder multisectorial engagement.

A presente pesquisa é um estudo de caso sobre o grupo de extensão universitária em educação ambiental da ESALQ-USP denominado \"Programa Ponte\". No referencial teórico são analisadas distintas concepções de ciência, ambientalismo, educação, universidade e extensão universitária; além da caracterização do ambiente educacional da instituição de ensino superior em que o Programa Ponte se insere, a ESALQ-USP. Os objetivos deste estudo são: contribuir para a compreensão sobre limites e possibilidades da universidade em apoiar uma educação voltada à formação de cidadãos comprometidos com a construção de sociedades sustentáveis; realizar um estudo sobre o caso do \"Programa Ponte\", buscando indícios que apontem para o enfrentamento da crise socioambiental; relacionar a dimensão global da crise socioambiental e distintas mudanças paradigmáticas com o contexto local da atuação do Programa Ponte. A metodologia utilizada foi a pesquisa qualitativa de estudo de caso, e os métodos de coleta de informações foram: análises documentais, entrevistas, e questionário. Os participantes da coleta são pessoas que atuam ou atuaram no Programa Ponte, e que forneceram informações tanto para a descrição do grupo quanto sobre a relevância desta experiência em suas vidas profissionais, acadêmicas e pessoais. Os resultados apresentam-se a partir da triangulação das informações obtidas na coleta, relacionando com o estudo teórico e valorizando as percepções e insights do pesquisador que foram surgindo ao longo de todo o processo. De um modo geral, pode-se perceber que algumas características que foram relacionadas à experiência no Ponte são relevantes para propiciar uma formação universitária condizente com sociedades sustentáveis, valendo a pena destacar: o cultivo da transdisciplinaridade, das relações sociais, da curiosidade, da potência de ação, a relação com o trabalho, a práxis, o diálogo, a disciplina, o acolhimento, a relação com o movimento estudantil e a democracia. / The present research is a case study about a university extension group in environmental education of ESALQ-USP called Programa Ponte. The theoretical framework and literature review for this study provides different conceptions of science, environmentalism, education, university extension and university; in addition to the characterization of the educational environment of the institution of higher education in which the Programa Ponte is inserted, ESALQ-USP. The aim of this study is: contribute to the understanding of the university\'s limits and possibilities to support an education directed to the formation of citizens committed to the construction of sustainable societies; to carry out a study on the case of the Programa Ponte, seeking indications that point to the overcoming of the socio-environmental crisis; to relate the global dimension of the socio-environmental crisis and different paradigmatic changes with the local context of the Ponte Program\'s acting. The methodology used was the qualitative study of case study, and the methods of information collection were: documentary analyzes, interviews, and quizz. Participants of the research are people who work or participated in the Programa Ponte, who provided information for both the group\'s description and the relevance of this experience in their professional, academic and personal lives. The results are based on information triangulation obtained in the research, relating to the theoretical study and valuing the insights of the researcher that have emerged throughout the process. In general, it can be noticed that some characteristics that were related to the experience in the Ponte are relevant to provide a university formation consistent with sustainable societies, worth noting: the cultivation of transdisciplinarity, social relevancy, curiosity, power of action, the relation with the work, the praxis, the dialogue, the discipline, the reception, the relation with the student movement and the democracy.

Pessoas com deficiência visual (DV) raramente fazem uso de bibliotecas por diversos motivos. Algumas bibliotecas são desprovidas de serviços especializados e materiais inclusivos que atendam as necessidades desse público. Diante desse quadro a Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante de Língua Portuguesa da Escola do Futuro USP (BibVirt), com o apoio da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura de São Paulo concebeu um programa de áudio para a promoção da leitura e literatura: Categorias Literárias - incentivo à leitura para deficientes visuais. Esta pesquisa teve por objetivos (i) investigar, a partir de reflexões transdisciplinares, o caminho percorrido durante a produção de Categorias Literárias, analisando as fases de produção dos programas; (ii) divulgar Categorias Literárias como um projeto que faz uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação para melhorar a vida de pessoas com DV com relação à leitura e literatura, alcançando também pessoas sem deficiência visual; e (iii) demonstrar que a combinação de diferentes mídias pode contribuir para a ampliação dos serviços nas escolas, instituições e bibliotecas virtuais. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa com características de pesquisa-ação, permeada por uma série de referências sobre o tema da transdisciplinaridade. Como procedimento a pesquisadora participou de todas as fases de desenvolvimento do projeto, registrando as fases de produção das séries em vídeos, fotografias e por comunicações assíncronas, via e-mail. Este trabalho concluiu que a transdisciplinaridade está preocupada com a compreensão do mundo presente, de modo que possa haver uma unidade de conhecimentos, destacando que a reunião de profissionais de distintas áreas de atuação e disciplinas, trabalhando colaborativamente em equipe, contribuiu para a produção de materiais inclusivos de qualidade, que beneficiam também pessoas sem deficiência e comprova que a combinação de diferentes mídias facilita o acesso aos mesmos. A contribuição e originalidade desta tese consistiram em vários fatores relacionados à educação e à inclusão de pessoas com DV, que por suas limitações encontram dificuldades e, por vezes, são privadas do acesso à leitura e literatura. Esta pesquisa pode contribuir para o surgimento de outras iniciativas, não apenas na BibVirt, mas também em outras bibliotecas virtuais, na oferta de serviços para pessoas com alguma deficiência, ampliando o acervo de livros falados, livros em Braille, livros em LIBRAS, como também sobre outros temas que vão além dos literários. / Visually impaired people (DV) rarely make use of libraries for several reasons. Some libraries are unable to offer specialized services and inclusive materials that meet the needs of this audience. In this framework the Student Virtual Library of Portuguese-Speaking of School of Future - USP (BibVirt), supported by the Secretary of Culture of São Paulo has developed an audio program for the promotion of reading and literature: Literary Categories - encouraging reading for the visually impaired. The following study aimed at (i) investigating, based in transdisciplinary reflections, the production process of Literary Categories, by analyzing the stages of production of the programs, (ii) disseminating Literary Categories as a project that makes use of information and communication technologies to improve the lives of DV people regarding reading and literature, also reaching normal visual people and (iii) demonstrating that the combination of different media can contribute to the expansion of services in schools, institutions and virtual libraries. This is a qualitative research with characteristics of action research, supported by a series of references on the subject of transdisciplinarity. As a procedure, the researcher participated in all phases of project development, recording the stages of the series production in videos, photos and asynchronous communications, via email. This study concluded that transdisciplinarity is concerned with a broader world understanding, so it can result in a unity of knowledge, stressing that the collaborative gathering of professionals from different disciplines and areas of expertise has contributed to the production of quality inclusive materials, which also benefit people without disabilities, and that the combination of different media types facilitate access to them. The contribution and originality of this thesis consisted of several factors related to education and inclusion of DV people, which because of its limitations find difficulties and, sometimes are denied access to reading and literature. This research may contribute to the emergence of other initiatives, not only in BibVirt, but also in other virtual libraries, in providing services for people with a disability, expanding the collection of talking books, Braille books, books on LIBRAS, but also on other topics that go beyond the literary.

Esta tese tem por objetivo estudar as barreiras à operacionalidade da multi, inter e transdisciplinaridade (tratados em conjunto pelo termo "arranjos colaborativos") em 4 Institutos Nacionais de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCTs), escolhidos a partir de seu potencial para operar arranjos transdisciplinares. Com esse intuito foi utilizado o método de estudo de caso, amparado por documentos oficiais e entrevistas semi-estruturadas, foram, também, utilizados métodos cienciométricos para a construção de determinadas categorias analíticas. O referencial teórico utilizado foi a teoria sistêmica de Niklas Luhmann. O universo da investigação foi o sistema nacional de inovação brasileiro, pois, os INCTs operam nesse contexto, acoplados a diversos sistemas funcionais: o sistema científico, o sistema educacional e o sistema político. A partir dessa estrutura, perguntou-se quais são as barreiras à operacionalidade dos arranjos colaborativos e em que medida tais barreiras afetam a produção de inovação baseada em pesquisa. Ao fim concluiu-se, no contexto do caso específico investigado, que diferentes barreiras em sinergia afetam à operacionalidade dos arranjos colaborativos, tais barreiras são reforçadas pela semântica da Academia, a semântica emergente a partir da operação das políticas científica e educacional que amparam a produção científica atual nos INCTs investigados. / The current Thesis aims to analyse the barriers to the operationality of multi, inter and transdisciplinarity (considered altogether as “collaborative arrangements”) within four National Institutes of Science and Technology (INCTs), chosen from their potencial of operating transdisciplinary arrangements. To proceed with such research, the method utilised was “Case Study”, alongside the analysis of official documents and semi-structured interviews; Scientometrics was utilized in order to stablish certain analytical categories. The theoretical reference was the german author’s Niklas Luhmann system’s theory. The investigation’s background that sustained the research was the Brazilian National Innovation System, since the INCTs operate within its boundaries, attached to a series of other functional systems, such as the scientific, educational and political. Starting from this pre-existing structure, it was deemed inquired which the barriers to operate collaborative arrangements are, and in which measures these barriers interfere with the production of research based innovation. Lastly, the current Thesis has come to the conclusion that, considering its case study, the synergy among different barriers impacts on the collaborative arrengements. These barriers are reinforced and catalysed by the Academical semantics and also by the uprising structures, all starting from the operation of scientific and political systems, which sustains the INTCs’ current scientific production.

A presente dissertação focaliza a formação de professores à luz dos referenciais da interdisciplinaridade e da transdisciplinaridade. Com isso, o objetivo principal centra-se na análise do currículo e das ações pedagógicas desenvolvidas na formação inicial de professores do curso de Pedagogia do Câmpus Universitário de Tocantinópolis, tendo por referência os fundamentos teórico-epistemológicos da interdisciplinaridade e da transdisciplinaridade. O caminho metodológico percorrido ampara-se no estudo de caso, de caráter exploratório, apoiado na abordagem qualitativa. Na coleta de dados, utilizou-se como instrumento um questionário subjetivo, com 43 discentes, e as técnicas de observação, análise documental e entrevista com 11 docentes da referida realidade educacional. A partir da sistematização dos dados, situada em estreita articulação com os teóricos estudados, verifica-se que a formação de professores na contemporaneidade exige o ressignificar dos modelos que historicamente têm lhes caracterizado. No que se refere ao contexto investigado, detectou-se que, embora existam ações pedagógicas que buscam uma ampliação nos modos tradicionais de ensinar e aprender, estas são situadas esporadicamente e de forma pontual no fazer de poucos docentes, sobressaindo-se, como prática prioritária, as atitudes metodológicas que se arraigam nas características da abordagem tradicional: aulas expositivas, isolacionismo no trabalho docente, deficiência na conexão ensino e pesquisa. No tocante ao currículo, é evidenciada a sua defasagem temporal, posto que estabelecido como estático desde o seu período de estruturação, além disso, verifica-se que a organização que prevalece na matriz curricular baseia-se na verticalização e compartimentalização das áreas do conhecimento. As análises tecidas podem contribuir para o desencadear de reflexões no cenário formativo do curso, que a partir do processo investigativo realizado desvela a necessidade do repensar das ações pedagógicas que se consolidam, bem como do currículo que é materializado em seu contexto, tendo em vista a ampliação das dimensões formativas do pedagogo. As reflexões realizadas possibilitam, ainda, visualizar uma fragilidade no modelo de ensino exclusivamente transmissivo e de caráter linear, o qual tem contribuído para a concretização de práticas vazias de sentido para estudantes e professores. Com isso, pontua-se que a formação alicerçada na abordagem inter-transdisciplinar é caracterizada por uma visão de dialogicidade, abertura, integração, valorização da diversidade, da escuta sensível, parcerias e cooperação. Esses elementos são tidos como potenciais para o desencadeamento de práticas e atitudes transformadoras no cenário educativo. / This dissertation focuses on teacher formation in the light references of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. With this, the main objective is to analyze the curriculum and pedagogical actions developed in the teachers initial formation of the Pedagogy course at the University Campus of Tocantinópolis, with reference to the theoretical-epistemological foundations of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. The methodological path covered is supported by the exploratory case study, supported by the qualitative approach. In the data collection, a subjective questionnaire was used as instrument, with 43 students, and observation techniques, documentary analysis, and interview with 11 teachers of said educational reality. From the systematization of the data, which is in close articulation with the studied theorists, it is verified that the teacher formation in contemporaneity demands the resignification of the models that have historically characterized them. Regarding the context investigated, it was detected that although there are pedagogical actions that seek an extension in the traditional ways of teaching and learning, these are located sporadically and in a punctual way that few teachers do, standing out, as a priority practice, The methodological attitudes that are rooted in the characteristics of the traditional approach: expositive classes, isolationism in the teaching work, deficiency in teaching and research connection. Regarding the curriculum, the time lag is established, established as static since its structuring period. In addition, it is verified that the organization that prevails in the curricular matrix is based on the verticalization and compartmentalization of knowledge areas. The analysis can contribute to the creation of reflections in the formative scenario of the course, which from the investigative process carried out reveals the need to rethink the pedagogical actions that are consolidated, as well as the curriculum that is materialized in its context, in view of the Expansion of the formative dimensions of the pedagogue. The reflections carried out also make it possible to visualize a fragility in the exclusively transmissive and linear model of teaching, which has contributed to the realization of empty practices of meaning for students and teachers. Thus, it is pointed out that the formation based on the inter-transdisciplinary approach is characterized by a vision of dialogue, openness, integration, appreciation of diversity, sensitive listening, partnerships and cooperation. These elements are considered as potential for triggering transformative practices and attitudes in the educational scenario.

O objetivo do trabalho é revisitar o tema da produção e difusão do conhecimento, enfatizando, por um lado, os limites epistemológicos já instalados (de características cartesianas e mecanicistas) e, por outro, a fecundidade de algumas propostas inter e transdisciplinares que, fundamentadas em premissas diferentes, vêm há décadas problematizando a noção de epistemologia e, por conseguinte, contribuindo para reinventar e articular o conhecimento. Com o intuito de explorar tais questões, propusemos, num primeiro momento, algumas reflexões gerais a partir de Japiassu (2009), Morin (1998; 2007; 2009), DAmbrosio (2009) e Mariotti (2008), e procuramos traçar um paralelo entre a sugestão de articulação de conhecimento desenvolvida por esses autores e a concepção de fluidez cognitiva tratada por Mithen (2002), o que, a nosso ver, aponta para a possibilidade de uma fluidez epistemológica que indica trilhas à inter e à transdisciplinaridade. Num segundo momento, tratamos a partir de Illich (1973) de algumas dificuldades inerentes a este debate. Entre as principais, conjeturamos se as instituições, tal como se apresentam na Modernidade, não seriam os maiores empecilhos a uma concepção holística e transdisciplinar do ser humano e do conhecimento. Para tentar dar sustentação a essa indagação, percorremos alguns caminhos da crítica feita pela Pós-Modernidade ao projeto epistemológico da Modernidade e, nesse sentido, aludimos ao pensamento de Bauman (2001) e também ao de Berger & Berger (1983), procurando mostrar que há bons indícios para acreditar que, também nos campos epistemológico e institucional, os sólidos modernos são os maiores impedimentos a uma tal redefinição do conhecimento. Por último, procuramos alinhar essa discussão teórica com alguns eventos ocorridos na década de 1980, no Brasil e no mundo. É a época da Ciência diante das fronteiras do conhecimento (colóquio realizado pela UNESCO, em 1986, que fomentou o debate epistemológico em torno da transdisciplinaridade). A análise dessas propostas subsidiou a discussão em diversos sentidos e apontou algumas trilhas possíveis. / The aim of this work is to discuss the theme of knowledges production and diffusion by emphasizing, firstly, its epistemological limits (mechanistic and Cartesian paradigm) and, secondly, the richness of some inter- and transdisciplinary proposals, which, based upon different perspectives, have pointed out the necessity of redefining the disciplinary boundaries of knowledge (proposing articulation). To exploit the issue, we present some thoughts of Japiassu (2009), Morin (1998; 2007; 2009), DAmbrosio (2009) and Mariotti (2008), and try to report these ideas to Mithens (2002) conception of cognitive fluidity, which led us to suggest an epistemological fluidity as the path for inter- and transdisciplinarity. We also disccuss, from Illich (1973), the obstacles involved in this subject. One of the main difficulties is what we called the institutional characteristics of Modernitys paradigm. Would the institutions of knowledge be the thoughest barriers to transdisciplinary proposals? To answer this question, we examined the critique led by some postmodern authors, focusing on Bauman (2001) and Berger & Berger (1983). The idea was to build reflections and, from this point on, present the notion of liquid modernity (Bauman, 2001), which suggests a fast changing order that undermines all concepts of durability (related, as will be discussed, to the epistemological project of Modernity). At last, the aim was to line up this theoretical approach with some events that took place in the eighties, such as the colloquium Science before the boundaries of Knowledge (Venice, March 7th, 1986).

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:54:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Elias Magno da Silva.pdf: 2405394 bytes, checksum: 3c00bb589c8b3d86bacb391e79327fa7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Naturopathic knowledge is characterized by a mix of medical fields, eastern, and western healing techniques and philosophies, modern and traditional. It is a phenomenon resulting from the crisis of paradigms of the contemporary world and the need for revision and extension of existing models of medical practice. It presents itself as a transdisciplinary knowledge affiliated with integrative and complementary models of work and health care. This thesis analyzes the structuring process of Brazilian Naturopathic provided transdisciplinary knowledge and practice. It seeks to understand if the Naturopathic favors the reconnection of knowledge and rationality that entails, and if it can be seen as a new approach in healthcare. Theoretical and methodological terms, this thesis is guided by the basis and foundation of the complex thought. The Brazilian academic production of Naturopathic Medicine verifies if and how the incorporation of theoretical and epistemological principles has been processed what allows characterizing it as a concurrently complex, multidisciplinary and comprehensive knowledge. The research analyzes, qualitatively, seventy-one course conclusion works from the only two higher education institutions in Brazil that offer bachelor degree in Naturopathic. The analysis of empirical data confirmed the hypothesis that the Naturopathic knowing and doing are linked to principles and critical paradigms of knowledge and revealed, however, the difficulty that the unorthodox knowledge faces to be accepted and incorporated in the academic field / A Naturologia é um conhecimento caracterizado pela mescla de racionalidades médicas, de filosofias e de técnicas de cura orientais, ocidentais, modernas e tradicionais. É um fenômeno decorrente da crise de paradigmas do mundo contemporâneo e da necessidade de revisão e ampliação dos modelos de prática médica vigentes. Apresenta-se como um conhecimento transdisciplinar filiado a modelos integrativos e complementares de atuação e atenção em saúde. Esta pesquisa analisou o processo de estruturação da Naturologia brasileira na condição de conhecimento e prática transdisciplinar. Procurou entender se a Naturologia favorece a religação de saberes e de racionalidades que comporta, e se ela, realmente, pode ser vista como uma nova abordagem na área da saúde. O trabalho orientou-se a partir do pensamento complexo para delimitar os procedimentos de pesquisa e análise do objeto. Verificou se e como ocorre, na produção acadêmica brasileira de Naturologia, a incorporação dos princípios da transdiciplinaridade, da complexidade e da integralidade que a caracterizam. Como recurso de pesquisa foi analisado, de forma qualitativa, 71 trabalhos de conclusão de curso das duas únicas universidades brasileiras que ofertam curso superior de bacharelado em Naturologia. A análise da empiria confirmou a hipótese de que o saber e o fazer naturológico está ligado a princípios e paradigmas críticos do conhecimento como a transdisciplinaridade, complexidade e integralidade e revelou, na contrapartida, a dificuldade que saberes não ortodoxos enfrentam para serem aceitos e incorporados, no meio acadêmico