Os programas de extensão da UCSAL, UNEB e UFBA e a promoção do desenvolvimento social

Abstract

Extension is the dimension of the university that has the greatest relationship with society, and should provide both the diffusion of scientific knowledge and provide opportunities for the exchange of cultural knowledge in a perspective of inclusion and promotion of social justice. The thesis we defend is that the extension is configured as a tool to promote social development by training the communities for a transforming action regarding the strengthening of social participation in the development of the city. The objective of this thesis is the analysis of the extension of the Catholic University of Salvador (UCSAL), the State University of Bahia (UNEB) and the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in the period from 2015 to 2018 in order to correlate it to the social development of the city of Salvador in the perspective of preparing for the exercise of active citizenship. To achieve the proposed objectives, the research had a quantiqualitative character and consists of semi-structured interviews with the Pro-Rectors of Extension of the three universities, it was used the procedure of documentary analysis in the normative documents (PDI, PPI, Regiment and Statute) and analysis of data on the extension in the IES in the period 2015 to 2018. The study showed that UCSAL contributed in the period 2015-2018 with social development by promoting extension actions offering training with a predominance of the education axis, provision of services and effectively contributed to the strengthening of citizenship and social participation, in this period UNEB promoted extension actions in various axes, in addition to providing services, the Pro-Rector of Extension of UNEB ratifies that the university contributed to social development, showing several examples results, in this context the UFBA offered extension actions with a predominance of the education axis and provision of services. The data found in the research support our thesis that the university extension of UCSAL, UNEB and UFBA constitute themselves as tools for the social development of the city of Salvador, as they contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the communities, by professionally instrumentalizing, strengthening the active citizenship that enables effective social participation capable of acting in social control.