“Extensionar”: do verbo quimérico às experiências da Extensão Universitária no Curso de Graduação em Pedagogia – Licenciatura

Abstract

This Undergraduate Thesis consists of the theme “Extensionar”: from the chimerical verb to the experiences of the University Extension in the Pedagogy course. In a context of personal, academic, and social relevance, it aims to legitimize the utopian term “Extensionar”, to conceptualize teaching, research, and extension, with greater emphasis on extension, to present the target audience of the extension and list with criticality the aspects that require improvement in it, supported by witness resources. When contemplating such objectives, the answer to the research problem that intends to represent how to achieve, qualitatively, the effectiveness of the initial training of the student of the Pedagogy course of the Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul – Campus Erechim is offered through the integrality of extension actions. The justification for the research is given by the author's consideration that there is an abyss between her pre and post pedagogical constitution that enters the University Extension actions that she has integrated, as in the Permanent Seminar in Child Education extension program, in the Institutional Program of Initiation Scholarships to Teaching and the Pedagogical Residency Program. The methodological path of this work is divided into three research guidelines, in which the guiding axis of writing is autobiographical, the method of data collection took place through online forms, and, for such research strategies, this is characterized as being qualitative research. This paper reaches its conclusion by listing significant results on University Extension and aspects that require improvements for the qualitative reach of the extension, amalgamating conceptions arising from the author's experiences, participants from extension actions, and theoretical frameworks that agree with the theme.