Extensão e comprometimento em nome do interesse público

• Autor(a) principal: Cardinalli, Marcos Aurélio [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Aranha, Angelo Sottovia [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://200.145.6.205/index.php/congressoextensao/8congressoextensao/paper/view/1383; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/142067
• topic: Environmental journalism; Educommunication; Teaching-learning; Jornalismo ambiental; Educomunicação; Ensino-aprendizagem

Recognizing the importance of university extension in higher education and encouraging the graduating student to leave the campus and integrate with the community, by fomenting teaching-learning; the student becomes a tool to social transformation at the same time that develops himself as a professional aware of his social role. The extension is the link between research and teaching, because the student applies the concepts learned in classroom and developed by research in social praxis. Also, it enables the return of the society investments in education, made through taxes. In Journalism, the extension contributes to the journalist formation by stimulating citizen awareness, because he must be a professional former of public opinion, a change maker of the reality in which he’s inserted. Regarding the environmental subject, each day more frequently and stimulated in the world, the extension fills a lack of futures journalists’ formation, once the disciplines that deal specifically with the environment are rare, which contributes to minimize superficiality and