Uma análise da Ciência da Informação brasileira no contexto da interdisciplinaridade

Abstract

This paper analyzes interdisciplinary perspectives and limitations of the Brazilian Information Science, in the specific context of the works presented, in 2003 and 2012 in GT 1 - Historical Studies and Epistemological of Information Science, of the Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Ciência da Informação. To this end, it was held literature review regarding the history of the Information Science. This work presents also the main aspects of the debate on interdisciplinarity. From this framework, we sought to examine the extent to which the brazilian Information Science makes use of expertise from other areas to its epistemological construction, that is, to what extent it gives its interdisciplinarity. The methodology has a qualitative aspect and consisted in comparing the content displayed on the integral cut articles to the modalities of interdisciplinary proposals by Heinz Heckhausen and taken from the work of Olga Pombo. From these comparisons it was possible indicate some tendencies of interdisciplinarity of Information Science at the Encontros Nacionais de Pesquisa em Ciências da Informação in Brazil.