Extensão universitária: contribuições à formação inicial de professores de Educação Física

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the contributions of the academical extension for the UFSM physical education teachers initial professional formation. The same was characterized a case study of social descriptive qualitative type as collection off information technique semi-structured interview and the document analysis. 11 were interviewed and were analyzed 39 projects of academical extension linked to CEFD. To interpret the information it was used the triangulation technique and creation of code categories. It was ended that a) the biological-functional conception, was the most used by the in the extension (43%), b) 38% of the worked contents in the extension emphasize the physical exercise as gymnastics, walk, muscular activity and water aerobics, c) the extension of CEFD offers to your academics the possibility of professional performance with different populations and places, but with concentration in seniors (68%) and in CEFD (73%) d) it was Constituted as an excellent field for the development of the social and political conscience, e) to the academic offers the exercise of guided pedagogic practice giving him/her didactic experience, f) in it the academic has the possibility all that he learns in the disciplines of the course, giving the solemnity opportunity to evaluate diagnosing his weak points and to improve. However, the extension faces problems as: a) the excessive valorization to the researches that inhibits the educational participation and academic in the extension, b) the extension politics is merely document, caused unbalances of actions in the extension and the social isolation of the university and c) the legal beginning of the unsociability just exists while and in official documents.