ARTICULATION BETWEEN RESEARCH, TEACHING AND EXTENSION: A CHALLENGE THAT REMAINS

Abstract

The Brazilian constitutional principle of the indissociability between teaching, research and extension in universities remains a permanent challenge in the everyday. There is a growing tendency to measure academic productivity only by research and innovation results, in detriment of more integration between university and community. The efforts to change this scenario often run into problems both at the structural level and at the everyday micro-relations level. The objective of this article is to discuss the challenges of articulation between research, teaching and extension in the public university, from the report of actions in Social Psychology and Human Rights. This action refers to a master's research and undergraduate classes from the University of São Paulo, developed in the Jaguaré neighborhood, between 2014 and 2016. The results reveal that challenges for the insertion and permanence of extensionist actions in the community are linked to factors such as: temporalities, institutions, financing, negotiations and interests of different actors involved. We argue that the potential of articulation between research, teaching and extension in the university coexists with the difficulties of effecting the principle of inseparability. A possible way to transform this scenario is to observe with attention the challenges that presents in the everyday life of universities.