Extensão Universitária no Brasil e na UFRRJ: quando e como estas histórias se entrelaçam

Abstract

The present research developed in the Master Course of the Postgraduate Program in Education, Contemporary Contexts and Popular Demands (PPGEduc) of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) brings as a theme the University Extension, its course in Brazil and in the University Federal Rural of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). It sought to record the historical trajectory of the extension in UFRRJ, comparing it with guidelines drawn nationally. The general objective was: to contextualize and conceptualize historically the university extension in Brazil and UFRRJ in the context of public higher education policies. Some extension actions proposed in UFRRJ have been identified over the years, investigating the records in the localized documents. As for the methodology, it is a qualitative, basic and descriptive research. The methodological procedures were based on the search of primary sources, which included the records books and other documents located in the Extension Office, the Secretariat of the Collegiate Organs and the Gustavo Dutra Auditorium (Gustavo). We opted to cut proposals related to the "Education" theme, and analyzed from three of the five guidelines pointed out by the Pro-Rectors Forum of Extension of Brazilian Public Universities (FORPROEX): a) dialogic interaction, b) Interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality and c) teaching-research-extension indissociability. We adopt as a theoretical-methodological reference: the historiographic record, addressing the importance of the field of history for educational research and the indiciary paradigm, an interpretative method that searches the clues along the way and makes the reading taking into account details often despised but hiding The key to the interpretation of a social context. We spoke with authors and official documents that provided the reflection on the trajectory of the Extension in Brazil, rescuing relevant aspects of the history and memory of the UFRRJ, in a contextualized and grounded way. We compare with official documents that include the University Extension policies elaborated by FORPROEX and also with national and institutional legislations and guidelines that deal not only with university extension, but also with teaching-research-extension indissociability. As results, we can point out that the systematization of information regarding university extension in UFRRJ, became a great challenge, since the documents located were not organized and still presented discontinuities and gaps in the records. We were able to distinguish that each management of the scope of the study had different practices of systematization of information, demonstrating that the notes on the various extension activities do not follow an institutionalized model, it being the responsibility of the researcher who wishes to make a historical survey, the work of " In books, minutes, deliberations, reports and other primary sources that can assist in the recording of institutional memory. The path taken has allowed us to verify that the history of the UFRRJ has peculiar characteristics and, given the difficulties of locating and systematizing the sources, we have been sure that this is only the initial step that will open the way to other research aimed at the historical reconstruction and registration Of the historiography of university extension at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro.