Edgar Morin is one of the great living thinkers whose interdisciplinary method has acquired great importance given the new demands for understanding and action resulting from the problems that surround us. This method also responds to the current growing demand for quality education, mainly through his work Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future. The interdisciplinary method is based on the theory of complex thought, conceived by Morin himself, which argues that reality is understood and explained simultaneously from all possible perspectives. Therefore, a specific phenomenon can be analysed from the most diverse areas of knowledge, through “transdisciplinary understanding”, avoiding the usual reduction of the problem to an exclusive question of determined science. This new approach has very important consequences in the panorama of sciences, education, culture and society.

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