Integralidad de funciones universitarias: perspectivas pedagógicas para su abordaje.

Abstract

Se piensa a la extensión universitaria como práctica dialógica, reflexiva y creativa, que promueve la búsqueda activa de conocimiento por parte de los actores participantes. Es esa búsqueda y esa íntima relación con el contexto y con otros, lo que profundiza la interrelación entre docencia, investigación y extensión. En este marco, el propósito del Proyecto es analizar y valorar la integralidad de funciones universitarias desde las percepciones de los actores participantes en proyectos de extensión, de la carrera de Licenciatura en Nutrición y proponer estrategias a futuro que contribuyan a consolidar la integralidad de funciones universitarias. Para abordar el objetivo general se consideran como objetivos específicos: Describir los proyectos de extensión desarrollados en la carrera de Licenciatura en Nutrición, período 2015 a 2024.Identificar aspectos significativos sobre la integralidad de funciones, percibidos por los actores participantes de los proyectos de extensión. Valorar las dimensiones pedagógicas emergentes de las percepciones de los actores participantes. Proponer estrategias pedagógicas que contribuyan a consolidar la integralidad de funciones universitarias. Formarán parte de la investigación los equipos extensionistas de la carrera de Licenciatura en Nutrición, que hayan desarrollado actividades de extensión durante el período 2015 a 2024. Se implementará un estudio de tipo descriptivo e interpretativo, siguiendo una investigación con metodología mixta. Se trabajará con Grupos focales, con los participantes de los proyectos de extensión del período en estudio, se realizarán encuestas y entrevistas semiestructuradas a participantes clave, de acuerdo con los emergentes de los grupos focales. En el marco de la investigación, se tomarán como punto de partida instrumentos ya existentes en la Dirección de Extensión Social, FBCB, UNL y Secretaría de Extensión y Cultura, UNL. Se realizarán la integración y discusión conjunta de datos, para realizar inferencias producto de toda la información recabada, procurando un mayor entendimiento del objeto de estudio. Con la investigación se busca comprender la perspectiva de los participantes, profundizando en el análisis de sus experiencias, opiniones y significados, en relación con la integralidad de las funciones universitarias y las diversas perspectivas pedagógicas para su abordaje.

University extension, as a pedagogical strategy, contributes to the training of the university student and the teaching task from a conception of integrality. Although it is not only a pedagogical strategy, but one of the territories in which university life is organized, along with research and teaching. University extension is conceived as a dialogic, reflective and creative practice, which promotes the active search for knowledge by the participating actors. It is that search and that intimate relationship with the context and with others, which deepens the interrelationship between teaching, research and extension. Various theoretical studies address how practices and methodologies based on experiential education influence the level of performance of university students, however, there is a lack of research that assesses - from the voices of the participants - the importance and implication of integrating teaching. , extension and research, taking extension practices as their axis. In this framework, the purpose of this Project is to analyze and assess the comprehensiveness of university functions from the perceptions of the actors participating in extension projects, of the Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition and to propose - in relation to the results obtained - possible strategies to future that contribute to consolidating the comprehensiveness of university functions. To address the general objective, the following are considered specific objectives: Describe the extension projects developed in the Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition, in the period 2015 to 2024. Identify significant aspects about the comprehensiveness of functions, perceived by the actors participating in the extension projects. Assess the pedagogical dimensions emerging from the perceptions of the participating actors. Propose pedagogical strategies that contribute to consolidating the comprehensiveness of university functions. The extension teams of the Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition, who have developed extension activities - AET, PEIS, PEII, PEEE -, during the period 2015 to 2024, will be part of the research. A descriptive and interpretive study will be implemented, following research with mixed methodology, since during the process both quantitative and qualitative data will be collected and analyzed, the integration and joint discussion of data will be carried out, to make inferences resulting from all the information collected, seeking a greater understanding of the object of study. The proposal seeks to understand the perspective of the participants - in a group and/or individually - by deepening the analysis of their experiences, opinions and meanings, in relation to the comprehensiveness of university functions and the various pedagogical perspectives for their approach. Within the framework of the research, existing instruments in the Directorate of Social Extension, FBCB, UNL and the Secretariat of Extension and Culture, UNL, will be taken as a starting point, such as final reports of extension projects period 2015 to 2024, final reports of students who have participated in these extension projects. We will work with focus groups, with the participants of the extension projects of the period under study, subsequently semi- structured interviews will be carried out with key participants, according to those emerging from the focus groups. Additionally, institutional documents will be analyzed, such as course plans for the subjects involved in the extension projects under study, Final Work Regulations for the Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition, Unique Teaching Regime (RUE), UNL Statute, among others. to find aspects that account for the importance of the comprehensiveness of teaching, extension and research.