Universidade, política cultural e juventude: O saber, o fazer da extensão universitária nas universidades públicas

Abstract

In spite of all the crises that the Universities have been experiencing over the years and the differentiated contexts, they are able, by their cultural aspects speeches-actions, , to build specific cultural profiles, which are significant for the definitions of concepts, goals, strategies and actions to redraw dynamically its purposes. The expression of this dynamic university is accomplished into the space of the extension with bold and renewed proposals able to promote dialogues, by deep relations of interaction and interchange of production and execution, with the society producing technologies capable to promoting the humanistic education and citizenship. The culture at the University is based, anthropologically, on the universe of relation and reconstruction of this proposal of humanist education, mediating and favoring the formation of university students. However, this youth, who positions herself in specific space and time and who experiment the proposed formation, sometimes does not establish relevant connections with the culture developed inside the University. By a process of reflection, from this context, emerge goals to think about the concept of culture at the University and on ways of knowing and doing at the extension, which favor the formation mediated by the understanding of the cultural universe in training and in the daily life of the university young persons. This research is limited by historical and cultural sceneries and economical-partner referring to the construction of a cultural politics in the public universities in Rio de Janeiro that, straightly, are driven by the directives currently proposed the Ministry of Culture and Education and by the Forum of Pro-rectors Extension of Brazilian Public Universities. The methodology appears in the course of investigation with the choice for the etnopesquisa of phenomenological conception. The micro-sociology contribute to understanding the social actor like producer and institutor of the speech and of the reality through social relations established from the involved groups and their political choices in context in daily life. The theoretical framework of this research is guided by the authors of cultural studies addressing: powders-modernity, social relations and group actions and policies and the social context as: Laclau (1978, 1996), Laclau e Mouffe (2004), Hall (1998, 2003), Garcia-Canclini (2005, 2006), Mendes (2007), Santos (2005, 2006), Nogueira (2000, 2005), Silva (2002), Readings (2002),), Souza (2007), Lapassade (2005), Ketele and Roegiers (1993) e Macedo (2006). Finally, the cultural politics in process of construction at the studied universities has shown the possibility of a differentiated experience at the university extension can add value in the humanist education and citizen. The consequences of these actions can come to strengthen the dynamic of policy construction based on a conception of culture, with alternative counter-hegemonic, what pays attention to the social demands in the powders-modernity