A extensão na Universidade Federal de Pelotas: estrutura administrativa e políticas institucionais (1969 -1992).

Abstract

The present study aims to present the developtment of university extension in UFPel between 1969 and 1992, from the administrators' point of view. The main objective is a reflection of how was the doing and thinking the extension, from the vision of these servers that were ahead of the extension during the studied period. The present proposal had questions that we pose and that our deponents also put themselves, today and at the time of their actions, with the goal of understanding the role of extension in UFPel. Our goal, from this point of view, is to verify how extension would have interconnected teaching and research and how the exchange of knowledge between university and public would have occurred, in the context in which UFPel was inserted. The oral history was the main ally of methodology, dialoguing with other sources. We have noticed, from the very beginning, that it was recurrent in the discourse of all administrators, each in its own way, the concept of extension as a social role of the university and as indispensable in academic education. The failures perceived by these managers were motivation for the search of new solutions, they gave the base to establish their mission in favor of the extension. To avoid that the memory of the UFPel extension falls into oblivion and to try to understand the place of extension in the history of our university, were the main objectives that we proposed.