DISCUSSION ON UNIVERSITY DOCUMENTS TO CURRICULATE THE OUTREACH ACTIONS

Abstract

On December 18, 2018, Resolution No. 7 was enacted with the objective of curricularizing Brazilian outreach actions. Such a resolution, known as CNE-CES 07/2018, brings to light abstract guidelines that refer exclusively to extension. In this scenario, it is observed in the literature that universities have adopted different paths to comply with the dictates of CNE-CES 07/2018, including with regard to their institutional documents that guide the process of implementing the resolution. That said, the following question is clarified: do the institutional documents outlined by Brazilian universities meet the requirements of CNE-CES 07/2018 considering a practical approach in the implementation of extension curricularization? In order to answer the problematizing question, a methodological path was structured to analyze documents from 10 (ten) Higher Education Institutions. This route consists of three steps: Step 1 - definition of the benchmark items considering the minimum requirements established by CNE-CES 07/2018, Step 2 - selection of documents from the 10 Higher Education Institutions and Step 3 - Correlation of the benchmark items with the documents from the 10 Higher Education Institutions. As a result, an overview was prepared that allowed demonstrating the difficulty of the referred Higher Education Institutions in implementing the extension curriculum. When analyzing the constructed panorama, there is a scenario that brings an important warning about the directions of Brazilian university extension since, historically, extension has always been considered a university appendix, thus limiting all its potential for social emancipation.