التجسير المعرفي : الرؤية، المنطلقات و المسارات

Abstract EN

The specialized academic regulation has dominated the production of scientific knowledge during a long period of the twentieth century.

Specialized communities seemed to settle within their intellectual and institutional boundaries pursuing and publishing more specialized and detailed knowledge about their respective fields.

However, the interest in accurate specialized knowledge engendered a poor perception of social phenomena, as it does not consider their comprehensive goals and nature.

There is an increasing interest in interdisciplinary communications to reach a level of re-integration of knowledge allowing a more balanced approach to study and research social phenomena while taking into consideration their comprehensive goals and nature on the one hand, and their details and components on the other hand, especially in interdisciplinary studies.

However, interdisciplinary studies seem to suffer from confusion and lack of clarity in defining the concepts and the know-how of the integration process between the visions of specialties to create an integrated and comprehensive understanding of a phenomenon.

In this context, this study proposes the concept of bridging (tajseer) as a framework for knowledge communication that includes a number of critical benchmarks, especially those related to problem solving.

The study also contributes to displaying the bridging between scientific disciplines, which results in three tracks: the bridging exploration track, the bridging synthetic track, and the transdisciplinary track.

In order to reach these results, the study benefits from a revision of the philosophical assumptions of social sciences suggesting a critical realist foundation for such efforts as an alternative to the substantive and hermeneutical basis of social sciences.