Education and human emancipation: experiences of educational processes in the scope of university extension

Abstract

In this research, we analyzed the educational processes present in experiences of the University Extension in the scope of the Education Department of the State University of  Paraiba/UEPB, Campus I, with emphasis on the praxis developed with the school community from the project of extension called Popular Education as mobilization of human emancipation. It is a qualitative research, with a participant perspective, considering the experiences and knowledge systematized through the scientific research developed within the framework of these experiences of reality. Conversation wheels, collective construction of educational activities and survey of the most significant issues were held. The research was based on Historical-cultural Psychology and Popular Education. It was verified that the openness to the coexistence and participation in the planning of educational activities extends possibilities, among them, of dialogue, creativity, recognition of oneself and the other in the construction of reality. Thus, it is understood that the experience, as well as the theoretical appropriation articulated through praxis, is essential in the effective construction of a process of formation of subjects in the perspective of an emancipatory culture. And, before the challenges of coexistence that contemporary society presents, it is strategic to create possibilities of coexistence and human solidarity between individuals and community; for this, education becomes equally essential.