scholarly journals The University Extension under an introspective approach: reflections and challenges from the management

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Catalina Francia ◽  
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Marcelo Mazzeo ◽  

University Extension at the Faculty of Dentistry of the National University of Cordoba has gone through a long process of conceptions, tensions and evolutionary changes with the aim of gradually accompanying the current extension paradigms. Various conceptions have been adapted during this process, giving rise to several significant changes in an attempt to give hierarchy to this pillar of the public university in line with the genuine needs of the community. However, there are still some challenges for the future, for which the participation of its teachers and students will be very important, not only in their permanent education and training, but also in the substantiation of renewed interdisciplinary projects, more and more committed to the social collective.

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 466
Author(s):  
Juliana Pereira de Araújo ◽  
Paulo Rogério dos Santos

Neste artigo socializamos os resultados de uma pesquisa que tomou como objeto a Ludoteca do Curso de Educação Física na Universidade Federal de Goiás - Regional Catalão (UFG/RC). A intenção foi compreendê-la a partir da tríplice visão de espaço de Henri Lefebvre (concebido, percebido e vivido). O percurso metodológico baseou-se na realização de uma pesquisa documental nos arquivos da Ludoteca e de entrevistas narrativas com duas ludotecárias, a quem chamamos de Ana e de Bia, e com a coordenadora, que denominamos Lua. Os dados foram analisados por meio da análise de conteúdo (BARDIN, 1997) e os resultados nos permitem compreender que os sentidos produzidos sobre a Ludoteca UFG possibilitam reconhecê-la como espaço que traz, na dimensão do concebido, marcas da universidade que a acolhe como política de extensão, mas que introjetam nela as possibilidades próprias do ensino e da pesquisa, enriquecendo-a e tornando-a espaço de formação. Pela dimensão do percebido o espaço da Ludoteca tem como marcas a coletividade, a partilha e a produção de subjetividades que transitam e exploram a reprodução do espaço social pela via da transmissão da cultura lúdica, das tradições e do repertório da infância quanto à produção do espaço que tem na transgressão, nas táticas e nas artes de fazer a chance de criação de novos roteiros de pessoa e de sociedade. Pela dimensão do vivido ela se estabelece como laboratório vivo, complexo, que tem em sua gênese a formação pela presença, pela memória, pela partilha e pela ludicidade que, incorporando os valores da universidade pública, alargam o entendimento da Ludoteca para muito além de ser meramente um “lugar em que criança brinca”.Palavras-chave: ludoteca universitária; espaço; educação.LOOKS ABOUT UNIVERSITY LODOTECA UFG/RC: more than where children place to playAbstractIn this article we socialized the results of a research that took place as a discipline of the Physical Education Course at the Federal University of Goias - Catalão. The intention was to understand from the vision of space of Henri Lefebvre (conceived, perceived and lived). The methodological course was based on the accomplishment of a documentary research in the archives of the Ludoteca and the accomplishment of narrative interviews with the playroom workers and the coordinator. The data were analyzed through content analysis (BARDIN, 1997) and the results allow us to perceive the senses produced on the UFG Playroom as a space that brings, in the dimension of the conceived, marks of the university that welcomes it as a extension policy, but which introduce in it the possibilities of teaching and research, enriching it and making it a space for formation. By the dimension of the perceived the space of the playroom has as collective marks the collective, the sharing and the production of subjectivities that transit and explore the reproduction of the social space by means of the transmission of the ludic culture, the traditions and the repertory of the childhood as the production of the space that has in the transgression, tactics and arts to make the chance to create new scripts of person and society. By the dimension of the lived it establishes itself as a living, complex laboratory that has in its genesis the formation by the presence, memory, sharing and playfulness that incorporating the values of the public university extend the understanding of the Labyrinth much more than merely being a "place in what a child plays. "Keywords: playroom; space; education.MIRADAS SOBRE LA LUDOTECA UNIVERSITARIA UFG \ RG: más que un lugar donde juegan los niñosResumenEn este artículo socializamos los resultados de una investigación que tomó como objeto la Ludoteca del Curso de Educación Física en la Universidad Federal de Goiás-Regional Catalán. La intención fue de comprenderla a partir de la triple visión de espacio de Henri Lefebvre (concebido, percibido y vivido). El recorrido metodológico se basó en la realización de una investigación documental en los archivos de la Ludoteca y en la realización de entrevistas narrativas con 02 ludotecas y la coordinadora. Los datos fueron analizados por medio del análisis de contenido (BARDIN, 1997) y los resultados nos permiten que los sentidos producidos sobre la Ludoteca UFG posibilitan reconocerla como espacio que trae, en la dimensión del concebido, marcas de la universidad que la acoge como política de extensión, pero que, introducen en ella las posibilidades propias de la enseñanza y de la investigación enriqueciéndola y haciéndola espacio de formación. Por la dimensión de lo percibido el espacio de la Ludoteca tiene como marcas la colectividad, el compartir y la producción de subjetividades que transitan y exploran la reproducción del espacio social por la vía de la transmisión de la cultura lúdica, de las tradiciones y del repertorio de la niñez en cuanto a la producción del espacio que tiene en la transgresión, en las tácticas y artes de hacer la oportunidad de crear nuevos itinerarios de persona y sociedad. Por la dimensión de lo vivido se establece como un laboratorio vivo, complejo, que tiene en su génesis la formación por la presencia, memoria, compartir y ludicidad que incorporando los valores de la universidad pública amplían el entendimiento de la Ludoteca para mucho más allá de ser meramente un "lugar en que niño juega ".Palabras clave: ludoteca universitaria; Espacio; educación.


Author(s):  
Carla Regina Silva ◽  
Alana De Paiva Nogueira Fornereto ◽  
Alessandra Rossi Paolillo ◽  
Alice Fernandes Andrade ◽  
Amanda Dourado Souza Akahosi Fernandes ◽  
...  

Frente aos impactos causados pela pandemia de COVID–19 tem-se inaugurado experiências em diversas áreas profissionais, dentre as quais se destaca a Terapia Ocupacional. Identifica-se contribuições da área a partir da universidade pública e a produção de ações integradas de gestão, ensino, pesquisa, extensão e produção acadêmica. A partir do relato de experiências vividas na Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), ilustra-se como a dinamicidade do momento que tem convocado a (re)pensar a função social da universidade e imposto a necessidade de adotar novas reflexões e estratégias para a continuidade e/ou reorientação do trabalho para responder demandas de proporções pandêmicas, na interação entre docentes e discentes. Além disso, nota-se que o fomento de ações de apoio, acolhimento e cuidado, para além de questões administrativas e de caráter acadêmico pedagógicas, têm sido uma diretriz comum.AbstractConsidering the impacts caused by CoVid–19 pandemic, experiences have been opened in several professional areas, among which the occupational therapy performance stands out. Identify themselves contributions from public universities and from integrated actions of management, teaching, research, extension and academic production. From lived experience's at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) reports, it is illustrated how the moment's dynamism called us to (re) think the university social function and imposed the need to adopt new reflections and strategies for continuity and / or work reorientation , in response of pandemic proportions demands, in the interaction between teachers and students. In addition, it is noted that promoting support, welcoming and care actions, beyond the administrative and pedagogical issues, have been a common guideline.Key words: Teaching; Search; Extension; Pandemic; Professional qualification. ResumenAnte los impactos causados por la pandemia de COVID-19, se han lanzado experiencias en varias áreas profesionales, entre las cuales se destaca la Terapia Ocupacional. Identifica contribuciones para la disciplina desde la universidad pública y la producción de acciones integradas para la gestión, la enseñanza, la investigación, la extensión y la producción académica. A partir de la narrativa de experiencias vividas en la Universidad Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), se ilustra cómo el dinamismo del momento que llamó a (re)pensar la función social de la universidad e impuso la necesidad de adoptar nuevas reflexiones y estrategias para el continuidad y/o reorientación del trabajo para responder a demandas de proporciones pandémicas, entre la interacción de docentes y alumnos. Además, se observa que la promoción de acciones de apoyo, acogida y atención, además de cuestiones pedagógicas administrativas y académicas, ha sido una guía común.Palabras clave: Enseñanza; Investigación; Extensión; Pandemia; Formación profesional. 


Author(s):  
Kelly Gallagher-Mackay

AbstractThe Nunavut Land Claim Agreement commits federal and territorial governments to the recruitment and training of Inuit for positions throughout government. In the justice sector, there is currently a major shortage of Inuit lawyers or future judges. However, there also appears to be a fundamental mismatch between what existing law schools offer and what Inuit students are prepared to accept. A northern-based law school might remedy some of these problems. However, support for a law school requires un-thinking certain key tenets of legal education as we know it in Canada. In particular, it may require a step outside the university-based law school system. Universities appear to be accepted as the exclusive guardian of the concept of academic standards. Admission standards, in particular, serve as both a positivist technology of exclusion, and a political rationale for the persistence of majoritarian institutions as the major means of training members of disadvantaged communities. Distinctive institutions – eventually working with university-based law schools – have the potential to help bridge the education gap between Inuit and other Canadians. In so doing, they have the potential to train a critical mass of Inuit to meaningfully adapt the justice system to become a pillar of the public government in the Inuit homeland of Nunavut.


Author(s):  
Néstor Horacio Cecchi ◽  
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Fabricio Oyarbide ◽  

For those of us who have been going through the public university for decades, a clear tendency in most of our institutions to rethink their senses, their missions, their functions, in sum: their must be. In these times and these contexts in which deep inequalities are made visible with absolute clarity, these tendencies to construct new meanings acquire a particular relevance. We understand that public universities in the exercise of their autonomy and as members of the State, must assume a leading role with a contribution that contributes to guaranteeing rights, in particular, of the subalternized sectors. This critical positioning is inescapable to consolidate the social commitment of our higher education institutios. This compelling transformative intention has a valuable background. In this sense, we warn that both in Argentina and in some of the countries of the Region, tendencies to consolidate, systematize, institutionalize processes of emancipatory articulation in their relations with the territory, organizations and social movements have been reproduced for some years, many of them, through curricularization processes in its different meanings. These experiences, dissimilar by the way, find the need to settle, to institutionalize themselves through various conformations that in some cases converge in Educational Social Practices or similar names, with different, unique formats, but with different meanings as well. That is why we propose to display, analyze, make visible some of the salient characteristics of these processes, the regulations, their singularities, similarities, the multiplicity of their feelings, in sum, their metaphors.


Author(s):  
Solongo Shagdarsuren ◽  
Ulambayar Batchuluun ◽  
Daniel Lindbergh Lang

A decline in number of credit hours of English courses for English-majoring students at National University of Mongolia is forcing teachers and students to focus on how to learn English more effectively and what factors would affect that process within credit hours allowed at the university. However, the English teaching class hours in Mongolian secondary schools have been increasing for the last few years, due to the interest in learning English as a foreign language, and resulting in a growth in the demand for English teachers. This study has a goal to investigate into motivation of English-majoring students towards learning English and the factors affecting them to be demotivated. Twenty students studying English as a major at National University of Mongolia, Erdenet School completed the research questionnaire  which intended to discover English learning motivation through 12 items and attended focus group interview with 5 questions to find internal and external demotivating factors in 2019-2020 academic year. The students had instrumental orientation and demonstrated a strong desire to learn English. Furthermore, they were demotivated by their teachers’ and classmates’ attitudes and living conditions. The researchers suggested some recommendations based on the study findings. 


Author(s):  
Marianne Robin Russo ◽  
Kristin Brittain

Reasons for public education are many; however, to crystalize and synthesize this, quite simply, public education is for the public good. The goal, or mission, of public education is to offer truth and enlightenment for students, including adult learners. Public education in the United States has undergone many changes over the course of the last 200 years, and now public education is under scrutiny and is facing a continual lack of funding from the states. It is due to these issues that public higher education is encouraging participatory corporate partnerships, or neo-partnerships, that will fund the university, but may expect a return on investment for private shareholders, or an expectation that curriculum will be contrived and controlled by the neo-partnerships. A theoretical framework of an academic mission and a business mission is explained, the impact of privatization within the K-12 model on public higher education, the comparison of traditional and neo-partnerships, the shift in public higher education towards privatization, a discussion of university boards, and the business model as the new frame for a public university. A public university will inevitably have to choose between a traditional academic mission that has served the nation for quite some time and the new business mission, which may have negative implications for students, academic freedom, tenure, and faculty-developed curriculum.


Author(s):  
Robert Volpicelli

The coda to this book uses modernist authors’ diverse engagements with academic institutions on the US lecture tour as an opportunity to reconsider long-standing scholarly narratives about modernist institutionalization. In particular, it argues that the academic institution is not the closed, autonomous space that critics frequently make it out to be and that modernism’s relocation into the university during the postwar period should not be seen as a retreat from the social world. After highlighting several scenes from this book that reflect an alternative perspective on modernism’s relationship with the university, the coda makes a final call for us to model our contemporary institutions on the US lecture tour’s diverse social engagements as a way of furthering recent efforts in the public humanities.


1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Nelson ◽  
Edward M. Bennett ◽  
James Dudeck ◽  
Richard V. Mason

This paper describes a resource exchange program between two human service organizations: a public school board and a university. This case study illustrates the utility of the concept of resource exchange as a response to pressures for the effective management of limited human resources. With an emphasis on mutual goals, needs, and strengths, the resource exchange program expanded resources available to both organizations. For the public school board, new services in the form of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programs were developed. For the university, research and training opportunities were created. Finally, the fragmentation between and within the organizations was reduced in correspondence with their increased mutual interdependence.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Peter Horton ◽  
Wah Soon Chow ◽  
Christopher Barrett

Joan Mary (Jan) Anderson pioneered the investigation of the molecular organisation of the plant thylakoid membrane, making seminal discoveries that laid the foundations for the current understanding of photosynthesis. She grew up in Queenstown, New Zealand, obtaining a BSc and MSc at the University of Otago in Dunedin. After completing her PhD at the University of California, she embarked on a glittering career at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and then Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. Not only a gifted experimentalist, Jan was a creative thinker, not afraid to put her insightful and prophetic hypotheses into the public domain. Her many notable achievements include establishing the details and the physiological significance of lateral heterogeneity in the distribution of the two photosystems between stacked and unstacked thylakoid membranes and the dynamic changes in the extent of stacking that occur in response to changes in the light environment. Her investigations brought her into collaboration with prominent researchers throughout the world. Recognised with many honours as a leading scientist in Australia, international recognition included Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Photosynthesis Research, and Honorary Fellowships at Universities in the UK and USA.


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