The current study purpose refers to the university extension, addressing the concepts
of university, organization, knowledge and extension. We sought to answer the
following question: Does the outcome that has been generated through projects on
extension practices developed by ICS/UFPA actually fulfill the guidelines of the
National University Extension Policy? The pursued objective consisted in a general
analysis of the extension practices of the Institute of Health Sciences (ICS) at the
Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in the light of the National University Extension
Policy (NUEP), comprehending dialogical interaction, interdisciplinary and
interprofessionalism, teaching-research-extension inseparability, impact on student
training, and impact and social transformation envisaged within the Policy Extension
of UFPA. The research methodology comprehended a quantitative and qualitative
approach supported by bibliographic and documentary supply. It was consulted the
collection of various documents, given more evidence to those focused on the
university extension in 2012, contained into several instances of UFPA. A number of
80 projects and 60 reports of extension of ICS were selected for analysis in the year
2012. The results revealed that the guidelines of PNEU fell far short of being reached
by the ICS products, when it came to interdisciplinarity and interprofessionalism,
teaching-research-extension inseparability, and impact and social transformation.
Furthermore, there was little participation by teachers, students and administrative
technicians of ICS in such activity. It was concluded that the extension model of ICS
consists is a welfare model, developed through service provision.
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