Extensão e desenvolvimento: uma análise da percepção dos discentes da Universidade Federal do Pampa e da comunidade santanense

Abstract

The present research had as main objective to analyze the effectiveness of UNIPAMPA Campus Santana do Livramento, as agent of regional development, from its extension actions. Specifically, it was sought to: i) ascertain the knowledge of the community of Santana do Livramento on the extension actions of UNIPAMPA, ii) identify students' perceptions about these actions, iii) identify how they are collaborating for UNIPAMPA to become a regional development agent and iv) To point out its benefits and contributions to the development of the city of Santana do Livramento. For that, a descriptive exploratory study was carried out, qualitative and quantitative, using the survey method. The research was carried out with two different populations. In this way, questionnaires were applied with 90 students who participated in or participated in the team executing extension actions of UNIPAMPA, chosen by non-probabilistic sample by trial, and 272 residents of different districts of the city of Santana do Livramento, determined with the stratified method. In order to effectively identify the students' perception of UNIPAMPA's extension actions and to understand how the university is collaborating for the development of the region, two constructs were elaborated, and the Cronbach Alpha test was used to validate them. The results show that the UNIPAMPA is, through its extension actions, collaborating with the development of the region where it is inserted, serving as an agent transforming social reality, contributing to the production of different knowledge and externalizing it to Local reality.