Good Practices of Extension and social bonding: Theoretical confluences between Extension, service-learning and social responsibility

Abstract

Good practices of Extension and social linkage:       Theoretical confluence between extension, learning - service and social responsibility, is related to university       extension and its articulation with the institutional,       state and company social sectors and has as objectives:       to assess the theoretical confluences between social       extension and the achievement of useful learning       for society, as part of the social responsibility of       the university and visualize how good practices of       extension and social linkage converge with the social       responsibility of the university in the dissemination       and conservation of culture.      

The mission of universities is to prepare the citizens       of a country to meet the demands that society       needs through the conservation, development and       promotion of culture, science and social progress. In       this sense, the extension work, service-learning and       university social responsibility constitute processes       that have points of contact and are distinguished from       each other based on the fulfillment of said mission,       encompassing various scenarios and approaches when       expressing the links of the university with society and       the state.      

This paper addresses, fundamentally, from pedagogical       theories, some theoretical reflections on University       Extension processes, followed by a tour of servicelearning       and university social responsibility, through the       exemplification of extensionist practices of the Faculty       Multidisciplinary Regional of Chontales of the UNAN       Managua.

The university extension and social link,       carried out from the FAREM Chontales, contributes to       the development of the country, through actions that       pay for responses to the SDGs, PNDH, Agenda 2030       and strategic lines of action of the UNAN-Managua.       The methodology of the work is close to socio-cultural       animation since all the experiences developed in       recent years are based on social intervention that tries       to modify the realities of groups of people, through       extensionist practices and actions.       In this sense, it is important to highlight that, through       sociocultural animation processes, specific actions       are developed as elements of extension and linkage,       roughly, to visualize in the communities, the actions       that modify their environment, for example, changes       of behavior, regarding family and social coexistence,       awareness of the need to care for the environment       and overcoming risk behaviors.