La extensión–comunicación universitaria disputando el lugar de la investigación como fuente de conocimiento. Un recorrido histórico hasta los enfoques actuales

Abstract

This work aims to shed light on those conceptions of university extension that propose it as a process of knowledge production and not only to the extent that it dialogues with the research function. To arrive at these considerations, we present, in the first place, a historical review of the different approaches with which extension is conceived: from those that place the focus on the social mission of the university, from more traditionalist perspectives, that understand it in terms of intervention or social projection, to other more novel and critical, such as the university social commitment. On the other hand, there are approaches that seek to highlight the dialogue of knowledge that characterizes extension and focus on the possibility of producing socially agreed knowledge. In this way, while there are those who propose a greater articulation between both estates -research and extension-, there is also a line that proposes to erase the limits that separate them. Thus we arrive at the notion of "coproduction", which in our universities is an instituting practice, which invites us to reflect on the scarce continuity of those approaches that are part of the well-known Participatory Action Research (IAP).