Experience of University Extension in Social Work in the Amazon

• Autor(a) principal: do Perpétuo Socorro Rodrigues Chaves, Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Textos & contextos (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fass/article/view/43251
• topic: povos e comunidades tradicionais; serviço social; traditional peoples and communities; social work

This article reports the experience of university extension of the Interdisciplinary Group of Socio-environmental Studies and Development of Social Technologies, of the Federal University of Amazonas, in the “Inter-Action Program: sustainability practices aiming at regional development”, in the urban environment and with the people and traditional communities in the Amazon. The methodological procedures, based on the Interaction Method (action-research modality), cover a set of data collection techniques and instruments: participant observation, focus group, dynamics of group approach, and others. The result of the extension actions allowed: to form dynamic competences committed to acting for the social protagonism of the Amazonian peoples; strengthen the organizations of social groups; provide subsidies for public policy institutions with propositions that are coherent with the interests and needs of social groups in the region.