Approaches in Educational Research as a Basis for Interdisciplinary Knowledge

Résumé

Education is one of the fundamental values of society. Knowledge does not involve just data or cumulative information. Without having any disregard for those things, knowledge is about contextualizing information, rationally understanding and structuring it for specific goals, and placing it within a value structure that contributes to the broad and deep comprehension of those data. These data together with values, facts and sensations, acquire virtuality (from Latin virtus, ‘value’, from which the word ‘virtue’ derivates) provided we turn them into something significant, placing them within their context, within their framework of tradition and innovation, embodied in the value structure that allows the improvement of society. This “virtuality”, ‘virtue’ is based on the contribution as fertile as possible of as many disciplines as possible. This contribution should be both specific and general to offer a general perspective that is well-based and significant. That is, knowledge is construed in an interdisciplinary fashion. For all the above reasons, this current volume, whose goal is to be an example of the virtuality (virtus) of interdisciplinary knowledge based on educational research and innovation.