Extensão na universidade pública brasileira: desafios e dilemas no período de 2003 a 2016

Abstract

The theme of this research is university extension, and it constituted an analysis of the University Extension Policy at the Brazilian Public University and focused on the period of the Workers' Party governments - PT (2003-2016). In this sense, the general objective was to analyze the University Extension Policy during the Workers' Party governments, in the period that comprised the two terms of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) and the two terms of Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016). In this sense, the central question of this research was: What extension policy resulted from the disputed projects within the scope of higher education policy in Brazil, considering the correlations of strength of an interclass coalition government? To this end, examining the configurations of capitalism from the context of world imperialism becomes imperative for the analysis of the educational policy in progress in the peripheral countries, considering that it is reformulated to meet the needs of the central countries in expanding the privatization of higher education. In this sense, public universities in Brazil will be increasingly subject to expansionist privatist policies. Education is constituted for capital, on the periphery of capitalism, from the beginning of the 21st century as a promising area of investments for capital in crisis, which is in incessant search for new fields of profitable exploration and dissemination strategy of the bourgeois worldview. This framework includes higher education and university extension which, from 1988 onwards, had its legal recognition as an element of the teaching, research and extension tripod in Brazilian public universities, but which in the governments of the Workers' Party (2003-2016), although the extension has expanded and reached a prominent level, it has failed to undertake a democratic and emancipatory university perspective, because inserted in a university subordinated to the interests of financial capital, in governments that do not break with neoliberalism, it expands, but does not changes the heteronomic and dependent structure of the Brazilian University. The Workers' Party governments created a movement of continuities and novelties in relation to the economic and social policies implemented by previous governments, but which maintained the dependent pattern of higher education that runs through the history of Brazilian education. Therefore, on the one hand, the internal privatization process of Brazilian public universities is deepened and, on the other, the entrepreneurship of higher education is deepened, which consequently creates the bases for the deepening of Brazil's dependent and heteronomous capitalist insertion in the world economy.