"Onde está a universidade?" Do discurso da (des)qualificação à presença colaboradora

Abstract

This paper aims to address the possible implications of the closeness between university and school based on the premise of “becoming presence” (Biesta, 2017) of the higher education in the school context. In this qualitative study, we introduce the extension project “UNISALE University-School Partnership” and focus on the events around the presence of a Project member at a school. Supported by principles and procedures of discourse analysis, interviews and narratives generated by the participating teacher and the researcher's field notes were analyzed. We observed contradictory discourses that move between the qualification (admiration) and the disqualification (skepticism) of the university's work, unveiling a distant and fruitless relationship between the institutions. At the same time, we capture possibilities of rehistorization (Reis et al., 2019) of these discourses, relationships and representations through the university physical presence at the school. We therefore understand the development of a genuinely collaborative university-school partnership that integrates research-teaching-extension and supports the re-signification of the relationships and representations between members of the university and the school community as well as the discourses that permeate them