A curricularização da extensão no curso presencial de Letras da Unioeste (campus Cascavel): traçando linhas transdisciplinares e transversais

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the integration of extension activities into the curriculum of the undergraduate Languages and Literature programs in English, Spanish, and Italian at the Western Paraná State University (Unioeste), Cascavel campus, Brazil. The research aimed to answer the following research problem: Does the Political-Pedagogical Project of these undergraduate courses have aspects that point to a curricularization of extension through transdisciplinary and transversal paths? For this purpose, the general objective was to analyze methodologies/routes used in the adoption of extension in the PPP of such courses and whether they aimed at an education focused on transdisciplinary and transversal interactions. The study was developed based on the thoughts and theories of Basarab Nicolescu, Edgar Morin, José Gimeno Sacristán, and Jacques Delors, involving reflections on transdisciplinarity and transversality, complex thinking, curriculum notions, and conception and development of extension activities. The cartographic method, postulated by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, shaped both the organization of the thesis, tracing lines of reading possibilities, along with the reflections presented, considering especially the complexity of knowledge brought into discussion. The basic and applied study adopts as technical procedures bibliographic and documentary research, as well as field study, through interviews with the undergraduate and extension pro-rectors of Unioeste, and semi-structured interviews, in which members of the courses were heard, to outline a profile of their extension conception and the impact caused by the obligation to include at least 10% of extension activities in the curriculum, considering Resolution No. 07/2018. As a result, aiming to stimulate thinking of a curriculum that meets the demands of extension curricularization, while also meeting the current society's desires and the professional profile of the forming students, some possibilities are presented from reflections on the “The Charter of Transdisciplinarity” (Lima de Freitas, Edgar Morin, and Basarab Nicolescu) and the book “Seven complex lessons in education for the future” (Edgar Morin), regarding the structuring of teaching, research, and extension activities of undergraduate courses that Unioeste’s institutional management can consider when revisiting the curricula, so that it reflects in the content and proposes the university triad based on transdisciplinary and transversal aspects.