What are the contributions of the extension actions in the initial formation of teachers that
contribute social and cultural dialogues between the university and society? This research
problem mobilized us to understand the articulations of participatory methodologies with the
extension projects of the Federal University of Tocantins, Campus of Araguaína. In this work,
we understand the university, from of a decoloniality perspecitve, in search of the integration
of academic cultures and society in order to overcome Eurocentrism, based on the Paulo
Freire’s thought, Boaventura de Souza Santos, Catherine Walsh and other authors. The
methodology was characterized in a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive approach from
triangulation with documentary research and interviews with the three teachers, and
coordinators of extension actions. This set of information allowed the identification of three
categories of analysis, that is, “Cultural synthesis”: the social tranformation by
collabotarion; “Intercultural translation”: against the waste of experience; and
Collaborative learning between authors and actors: the social transformation by action. In
the analysis process, we understand how complex is the social commitment of the university,
but the extension activities scanned demonstrated the horizontal dialogue between university
and society, despite the difficulties to be effective in practice, as an institutional policy,
proved capable of achieving a humanist and liberating education, including academics,
teachers and the community. From the collaborative learning between authors and actors; of
recognition of the plurality of knowledge and experiences by coloniality of knowledge
problematization it is believed that the university will expand the construction of socially
relevant knowledge, recognizing community participation in the process of planning,
development, and evaluating of extensionist actions, in the initial formation of teachers,
can be transformative for society and especially for the university, as the creator of new
knowledge relevant and relevant to society. Thus we emphasize the importance of
interdisciplinarity as a promoter of a solidarity dialogue between knowledge and the strong
relationship of the university with (co) production, sharing, communication, exchanges and
integration of cultures, through extensionist actions.
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