A contribuição da extensão na formação do estudante universitário

Abstract

This research, of qualitative and exploratory characteristic, aimed to investigate the learning experience of students that were involved in extension project of a private University in Distrito Federal. The motivations of the students to participate of University extension project were identified; the most important learning built from this experience; the conceptual skills, procedure and attitudes developed by students; the consequences identified to the academic development, professional and the social commitment to the desirable ethics and politics change to the society. This research involved 11 students in the semi-structured interviews and 7 students in the focused group, all extension project´s participants from this Institution of Superior Education IES. Among other things, reached results from this research were: the perception of many motivations to participate of extension project, such as: professional experience, more knowledge of their graduation area, wish for social action; the most important learning was how to live with the differences and develop different activities plans to each group; and finally the understanding that the academic knowledge is not the only knowledge in society, because after contact with the communities it was possible to identify new knowledge. Also the students that participated of the research appreciated this experience in an extension project.