Social Contradictions in the Interdisciplinary Research Formation in the Ecotourism Major in the ESPOCH, Ecuador

Abstract

The Technologies of the Information and the Communications (ICT), are potential facilitators of the interdisciplinary investigative activity in the superior education. The Superior Polytechnic School of Chimborazo (ESPOCH), in Ecuador has an advanced technological infrastructure that places it under conditions to generate such investigations. Paradoxically those resources don't offer results of the aspired level. This study is based on the qualitative methodology and its objective is: To analyze the contradictions that are in the base of the scarce interdisciplinary tecno-investigative culture of the community of professors, which affect sensibly the formative processes and the acting of the students in the case of the School of Ecotourism. The main results are analyzed in three dimensions. These are: the: political, the pedagogic one and the epistemic.

Keywords

• Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC)
• investigación
• interdisciplinariedad
• cultura tecnológica
• cultura investigativa.