A CONTRIBUIÇÃO DA EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA NA FORMAÇÃO ACADÊMICA: DESAFIOS E PERSPECTIVAS

Abstract

This study aims at analysing how teachers express the nature of the extension activity in their projects, using the approaching and distancing of the university extension potential as an education device inspired in the praxis as a parameter of analysis. The empirical field comprised the extension actions proposed by teachers in the education scenery of the State University of Rio Grande do Norte, through the workload notice for 2016. 14% of the proposals approved in 2016 were selected, in which the items below were analysed: the inextricable connection between teaching-research-extension and the extension nature and evaluation. The importance of a formative dialogue which enables the discussion of the concept of extension in the perspective of broadening senses, for some transformation in the evolution of a teaching posture with dialogical education, through plural knowledge that permeate the University insideoutside.