Reflections on the curricularization of the university-society linkage in the National Autonomous University of Honduras

Abstract

The National Autonomous University of Honduras    promotes strategies for the curricularization of the    function of linkage with society, which integrates    teaching and research; and that may be attached to    the training process of current careers.    This impulse is based on the reformist ideas of the    Latin American University about the integration    of substantive functions and the democratization    of higher education, in search of a more relevant    university model.    The article outlines a tour of the events and conferences    from the university extension function, where    approaches to comprehensiveness, the hierarchy of the    extension function and the comprehensive curricular    practices are evidenced. This debate has been sustained    especially by university extension management teams,    based on networking in spaces such as the Central    American System of University Relations SICAUS and    the Latin American Union of University Extension ULEU,    especially in the last decade.    The curricularization of the linking function is based    on the Educational Model of the UNAH, which    proposes a series of integrating principles and axes, to    curricularize comprehensive practices aimed at solving    the most prevailing national problems.    Both political and methodological challenges are posed    for the construction of strategies that transform the    current academic organization and that make room    for a process of curricularization of integral practices    consistent with the Educational Model of the UNAH.