A percepção da extensão rural no âmbito da graduação nas ciências sociais e agrárias na UFLA

Abstract

The objective of the study is to problematize the Extension with the students of the subject of Extension Fundamentals of the Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA). The methodology used was the participatory mapping as a group diagnosis, which purpose was to gather information from the domain of specific themes, considering the social and economic context of each one of the participants, in order to be able to dialogue and align the knowledge of these themes with the whole group. Knowledge about extension in the academic background was discussed, making a historical knowledge rescue of the rural extension in Brazil in order to motivate them to an action in the rural extension participatory and democratic. It was observed the distance of the teaching and research institutions with the society, and the extension must be made in several places, since all fields of knowledge have openness for extension.