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The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 8(01): 6340-6355, 2020 DOI:10.18535/ijsshi/v8i01.01 ICV 2015: 45.28 ISSN: 2349-2031 © 2020, THEIJSSHI . Research Article Between The Specificity Of Social Work And The Loss Of Disciplinary Boundaries: An İnterdisciplinary Experience Of Postgraduate Training Dr. Carmen Burgos [email protected] Dr. Maria Cristina Gonzalez [email protected] Daniela guzman [email protected] Janina Cortes [email protected] Summary: This research presents an analysis of the academic experience of the Master in Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health, taught by the University of Atacama (Chile). The objective of the study is to first reflect conceptually regarding interdiscipline in the educational field, also reviewing the concepts of multidiscipline and transdiscipline, to then analyze the expression of interdiscipline in the professional training of Social Work in public universities in Chile. In this way, based on the previous conceptualizations, the Master in Qualitative Health Research Methodologies is particularly analyzed, which shows the complementarity of Social Work with the field of Health, and is presented as an element that contributes to overcome the lack of advanced human capital in the Atacama region. The analysis allows to indicate that this Magister is the first program within the country as an alternative of methodological specialization for people in the social and health area, through knowledge of health phenomena with a qualitative perspective. The study concludes that the interdisciplinary base of the Magister effectively expresses the link between different knowledge and practices, which allows predicting auspicious results of this postgraduate course, in addition to leaving challenges, advantages and projections of the Magister. Abstract: This research presents an analysis of the academic experience of the Master in Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health, taught by the University of Atacama (Chile). The objective of the study is to first reflect conceptually regarding interdiscipline in the educational field, also reviewing the concepts of multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary, to later analyze the expression of interdiscipline in the professional training of Social Work in public universities in Chile. In this way, based on the previous conceptualizations, the Master in Qualitative Health Research Methodologies is particularly analyzed, which shows the complementarity of Social Work with the field of Health, and is presented as an element that contributes to overcome the lack of advanced human capital in the Atacama region. The analysis allows to indicate that this Magister is the first program within the country as an alternative of methodological specialization for people in the social and health area, through knowledge of health phenomena with a qualitative 6340 International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention, vol. 8, Issue 01, Januwary 2021 Dr. Carmen Burgos/Between The Specificity Of Social Work And The Loss Of Disciplinary Boundaries: An İnterdisciplinary Experience Of Postgraduate Training perspective. The study concludes that the interdisciplinary base of the Magister effectively expresses the linkage of different knowledge and practices, which allows predicting auspicious results of this postgraduate course, in addition to leaving challenges, advantages and projections of the Magister. Keywords:Postgraduate course; Education; Health; Social work . Introduction also results in the division of knowledge). The objective of the text is to show a binding (García and Estrada, 2016) There is a great postgraduate academic experience between Social Work and Health, through a conceptual diversity of visions and meanings, which can analysis of interdiscipline. For this, the study be from methodological, epistemological, is divided into three sections, the first ethical, semantic, historical, geographical, addresses interdiscipline at a conceptual level, political, educational, etc., which transfers the second compiles features of the history of these concepts to the field of complexit From Social Work, highlighting its complementarity our perspective it has a dynamic, historical with the field of Health, together with the contextual character, there is no single analysis of current professional training in conceptualization accepted as unique if we Social Work in Chile; and the third articulates take the field in which it is located, that is, the previous conceptualization, describing as scientific, economic, political, social, an innovative example, the interdisciplinary educational and historical. Semantically, academic experience of the Master in interdiscipline has many possible Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health, interpretations, the context in which it is found at the University of Atacama. Finally, greatly influences, as an adjective, as an challenges, advantages, projections and action, as a noun, as a dimension and even as a tensions of the proposal are evident. synonym for transdiscipline, although the term is not recent, in recent decades it has emerged , The İnterdisciplinary Need, An Urgent not only centers for interdisciplinary studies, Challenge Of The 21st Century: but also undergraduate and graduate degrees. With so many options, the questions arise: Reflecting on the definition of interdiscipline, How to clarify or mean interdiscipline? How its theorization and its use in the educational to understand it in the educational field? Is it field, implies the review of the different built or applied?Olga Pombo (2013) considers concepts that are attributed not only to that to have a proposal of what interdiscipline interdiscipline, but also to multidisciplinary is, one must resort to the prefixes that precede and transdisciplinary, starting with the word the word discipline, the prefixes pluri, inter discipline. But not only that, but to delve into and trans, and thinks of them in a continuum the different approaches that can be awarded; that goes from coordination to the combination from the fragmentary and reductionist and from this to the fusion, thinking in the perspective of knowledge and therefore of the form of a crescendum of intensity, in such a discipline, and that has to do with the way that the multidisciplinary (or multi) neoliberal approach or, with the tendency to implies coordination, inter-convergence and specialization as a way of responding to transdiscipline holism.With this logic, levels specific situations as in its origin (Industrial are considered, and multidisciplinarity is the Revolution with the division of labor and that first, followed by interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary.On the other hand, Raúl 6341 International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention, vol. 8, Issue 01, Januwary 2021 Dr. Carmen Burgos/Between The Specificity Of Social Work And The Loss Of Disciplinary Boundaries: An İnterdisciplinary Experience Of Postgraduate Training Motta takes up the prefixes "pluri" and "multi" fragment knowledge.From this brief and "inter" and "trans", the first as quantity introduction to the interdisciplinary, the and the last two as relations (he takes a very articulation with the topic of interest will be different turn from the first) which are addressed immediately: the current moment of reciprocal and cooperative , interdependence, Social Work and its relationship in a concrete exchange and interpenetration. What gives it a way with the Health sciences; from a historical totally active character. identifies that the use look in order to reconstruct the outlines that as synonymous of the concepts, is what make up the state of the matter in the country. generates the confusion between one and the other.In particular, it delves into inter and Origin and initial development of Social transdiscipline, as levels of reality that Work in Chile: therefore have different logics, which implies According to Montaño (2012) there are two the need to relearn how to build and propose in perspectives on the genesis of Social Work. A the educational field, with a different, open so-called endogenist, who refers to the social attitude, ready for transformation and rupture aid of yesteryear as the origin of the of the known. Starting from the triad of profession, from the logic of improvement of prefixes related to the multidisciplinary the aid; and the other identified as a historical- concept understood as collaboration, action critical perspective that establishes that Social between different disciplines, which Work is a product of a political project that strengthen research for the creation of lies in the installation of a State that needs to knowledge, in this sense each contributes its respond to the undesired consequences of the vision to a situation or problem.Interdiscipline social question. However, González (2010) understood as convergence, it not only mentions that this interest in the social assumes the participation of different question changes in our country, focusing on disciplines, but also the integration of the desire to make philanthropy professional, disciplinary approaches in the investigation of which went through making charity a situations or problems, understood as complex scientific, systematic and planned actio The systems or, the construction of knowledge disciplinary complementarity of origin through the articulation of concepts, between Health and Social Work is such that, procedures and methodologies.The among the recognized