Reflexões sobre a integralização da extensão nos currículos de graduação

Abstract

In 2018, the Brazilian Ministry of Education, through the Chamber of Higher Education of the National Council of Education, published resolution number 07, which establishes the Guidelines for Extension in Brazilian Higher Education and in its article 4, determines that “extension activities they must make up at least 10% of the total student curricular workload of undergraduate courses, which should be part of the courses’ curricular matrix”. Faced with this challenge, we propose three dialogic movements – with history, with regulations and with local contexts – in order to collaborate with the reflections that support the implementation of this measure, at this time, giving less emphasis to the ways to implement it, but emphasizing its importance and justifications. We believe that in this way, the exercise of formalizing the 10% can no longer be understood as a mere bureaucratic action and puts the role of universities in Brazil into debate.