The Totalizing Approach in 21st Century Educators

Abstract

The accelerated and growing complexities in which we are immersed in the era of knowledge and information societies, in scientific, technical, political, economic, social, environmental and cultural orders demand of professional educators to elevate its pedagogical, psychological, sociological, ideological and ethical preparation, among others, to attend to the diversity of problematic and unforeseen contingencies that arise in its important daily work. The work presents a systematization as a result of a research carried out and applied for more than four decades, shows the transition from an analytical approach to a totalizing approach in epistemological conceptions, is based on a new holistic, complex, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary thinking style whose contributions theoretical and methodological aspects contribute to updating and increasing the efficiency of the professional pedagogical activity of educators, in accordance with the current and future professional and social demands of this new century.