Perceptions about the extension by teachers and graduates

Abstract

Given the thematics' importance of the university extension in Brazil, since the end of the century. XIX, being included as the third mission of the university, along with teaching and research, we sought to enter this context, following this achievement that is gradually acquiring more space and becoming more susceptible to distortions. This report contains the results of the research thats was carried it out at the Federal Institute of Sertão Pernambucano, specifically on Petrolina campus, whose objective was to analyze the perception of students and professors of higher education courses regarding extension in relation to their policies, actions and guidelines. In a quantitative approach, an online questionnaire, a Likert scale type, was applied, with active teachers in higher education courses and students enrolled in higher education courses in Music, Computing, Chemistry, Physics and Food Technology course in the second semester of 2019. Contact with participants was by e-mail, via Whats-App and with on-site visits. The results show that the Petrolina campus is politically active and engaged in developing extension actions, being noticeable by the majority of those surveyed, even though some gaps were identified in the communication, the possibilities of action and deepening the extension guidelines. It is concluded that the extension is being practiced by the interlocutors, still needing to deepen the knowledge in relation to the concept, guidelines and extension possibilities.