Situated reflections on university community outreach programs, territorial linkage and integrality

Abstract

The following article will reflect some situated considerations in connection with an Extension practice carried out along the last 8 years. During the time worked on the field, a set of integrated processes were simultaneously developed, reflecting the “making” on extension programs from a synergistic university-society relationship: the access to the territory, the establishment of social ties, the growing institutionalization of university extension as a context for the intervention we carried out, the reconfiguration of the understanding of the territory and the university-society relationship, and the situated learning of both teachers and students, as well as the consequent reflection about these processes. Finally, the awareness and position about the centrality of the extension in a renewed way of understanding the production of knowledge, as a more democratic and respectful way of understanding the co-produced knowledge with others outside the walls of the university.