Review / The curricularization of university extension from the national plan of Education in Brazil: difficulties and possibilities.

Abstract

The curricularization of university extension from the national plan of Education in Brazil: difficulties and possibilities is the doctoral thesis of Prof. Alfredo Balduíno Santos, organized into six chapters where he analyzes the possibilities and challenges of accrediting university extension through its curricularization. Held at the Center for Educational Sciences, Specialty in Curriculum Development at the University of Minho in Braga/Portugal. With the Brazilian Citizen Constitution of 1988, university extension in Brazil gains a new status, being on a par with teaching and research, when in Article 207 it determines obedience to the principle of inseparability between teaching, research and extension, providing opportunities for university extension to disassociate itself from the assistencialist conception that had been attributed to it until then. Currently, considering the guidelines of the National Forum of Extension Pro-Rectors of Brazilian Public Universities, extension, together with teaching and research, appears as part of the triad that supports academic practices in these universities (FORPROEX, 2001).