A Formação em psicologia a partir de uma experiência de extensão.

Abstract

Extension, as one of the pillars of higher education, has a leading role in student training. In this paper we discuss what role this university extension develops and has developed for students and graduates of the Psychology course of the Universidade Federal do Ceará, campus Sobral. The research has a qualitative character where eight respondents were used, five current students and three graduates of the course. All informants made or are part of the extension entitled "Laboratório de Estudo das Desigualdades" (LAEDES). The interviews were based on a single triggering question. Throughout the interviews it was perceived how much the extension has a booster and modifier character for the students that constitute it. The relation of praxis, of real contact with the community, is what most impels the extensionists to continue building their formation based on extension. The graduates showed how much the university extension was a driver of possibilities that has reverberated in the choices and professional paths that today they tread. The university extension showed to be an important learning device bringing to the surface the question of curricularisation of this device in the courses as a new form of (re)construction of higher education.