Aperfeiçoamento de estratégias de planejamento e implementação em Programas de Extensão ofertados por Universidades Públicas: uma análise ao Programa Trilhas Potiguares

Abstract

The main objective of this intervention project was to propose a review of the technical criteria that guide the entry of the municipalities into the Poilhas Program, based on the questioning of how an eventual reassessment of the entry criteria used by the Program Trails Potiguares. This is because it is understood as insensitive the method of selection of municipalities that can participate annually in the stages of the program. The Trilhas Potiguares Program covers a wide area of action, aiming at the application of academic knowledge to the external community. The intention is to work in municipalities with greater focus of social vulnerability, whose selection of such, obeys criteria previously established by edict, to which the target municipalities should fit. Based on the theoretical foundation, which deals with public policies in the educational field; the challenges of higher education in Brazil; the university extension and its role in society, authors such as Freire (1983), Thiollent (2002), Barrozo (2004), Arroyo e Rocha (2010) and Batista (2015) were cited. In the methodological scope, the research was characterized as descriptive, exploratory and interventional, with quantitative-qualitative approach, and the use of the SWOT analysis tool. With this, it was observed that the admission criterion established by the Program is not necessarily related to a high level of vulnerability. A municipality with population content above the established number, can also present basic demands with greater sensitivity of assistance.