A experiência como prática formativa de estudantes na Extensão Universitária

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Ana Luiza Salgado
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3443
• topic: Experiência; Extensão universitária; Formação universitária; Experience; University extension; University education; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The present study is a research about experience, as a subject of educational practice for undergraduate students involved in university extension, understanding its historical different conceptions and practices. The main purpose was to qualify the experience dimension of university students involved in university extension activity, understanding how it is related to students formative process and how they treat the extension activities experiences in their academic background. Considering the different conceptions and the historical university extension modalities associated to several functions assumed by university, we analyzed how the social and political differences in conceptions and university extension activities modalities cross students several formative experiences. As methodology, we adopted interviews based on focal group perspective. They were used as instruments for information production about the extension experiences. Four meetings happened with different university students groups. In order to understand and analyze data from focal groups, in the light of theories used for the present work, we applied the content analysis for the purpose of extracting the meanings of speeches which were built collectively by the students, identifying message characteristics, senses and meanings, understanding transversal elements in different experiences, conceptions and practices. The research results allowed us qualifying the university experiences in the perspective of extension practices historicity, understanding which place the extension activity takes in students trajectory, just as well as the meanings and senses of experiences in universities extension activities over academic expertise construction. Thereby, it is possible to understand the existence of other ways of composing knowledges which are organized based on practices and do not have the status of scientific knowledge; as a result they are not institutionally legitimized, as in the case of experience. In the present study, the university extension practices are understood as educational significant experiences, because of their contribution for the living field. Where occur the relations of experiences as well the several practices and conceptions are intimately linked to the historical and political tensioning in Brazilian education. We also conclude that other paradigms are announced beyond the traditional university knowledge, the university extension activities appears as a possibility of making place for other existing knowledges.