The Curricularization of Extension

a necessary knowledge for the university routine [Interview given to] Francilda Alcantara Mendes

  • Helder Eterno da Silveira Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)
  • Francilda Alcantara Mendes Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56837/EntreAcoes.2023.v4.n1.1134
Keywords: University Extension, Brazilian universities, Extension curriculum

Abstract

It portrays extension as a promoter of the connection between higher education and its technical knowledge to the knowledge present in society and its various sectors. It highlights the importance of extension in academic training, bringing social aspects to science, technologies, arts and philosophy. It exposes the inclusion of extension in the curriculum as a method of promoting extension within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), a means of integrating the inseparable pillars of universities (research, teaching and extension), constitutional precepts of the purposes of higher education. It presents the process of curricularization as challenging, portraying it as a paradigm shift that was once based on the teacher-student-knowledge relationship, is now portrayed as teacher-student-knowledge-community. He describes the experience as president of the Forum of Pro-Rectors of Extension of Brazilian Public Institutions of Higher Education (FORPROEX), as challenging, because in addition to practical execution, there is a theoretical and conceptual construction about extension. It concludes by describing strategic methodologies for curriculating extension in Brazil.

Author Biographies

Helder Eterno da Silveira, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)

Pró-reitor de Extensão e Cultura da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Professor Associado da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Presidente do Fórum dos Pró-reitores de Extensão das Instituições Públicas de Ensino Superior brasileiras. Doutor em Educação pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Doutor em História da Ciência e Tecnologia. Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL). Mestre em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Especialização em Educação Para Ciência pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Graduação em Licenciatura Bacharelado Química pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU).

Francilda Alcantara Mendes, Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)

Editora de Seção da Revista EntreAções: diálogos em extensão. Doutora em Educação Brasileira pela Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC. Mestra em Desenvolvimento Regional Sustentável pela Universidade Federal do Ceará-UFC. Especialista em Direito Processual Civil pela Universidade Regional do Cariri. Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Regional do Cariri.

Published
2023-10-26
How to Cite
SILVEIRA, H. E. DA; MENDES, F. A. The Curricularization of Extension: a necessary knowledge for the university routine [Interview given to] Francilda Alcantara Mendes. EntreAções: dialogues in extension, v. 4, n. 1, p. 7-17, 26 Oct. 2023.
Issue
Vol 4 No 1 (2023): EntreAções: extended dialogs
Section
Interviews

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