The Higher Education Institutions and their interlocutors regarding the perception of extension actions.

Abstract

The information on university extension in the world has been recorded since the beginning of the 19th century in England. In Brazil, university extension gains greater prominence from the second half of the 1960s. During that time, university education realized the importance of the inseparability between teaching, research and extension, based on the knowledge of concepts, fundamentals, conceptual bases, possible impacts and changes resulting from extension actions. This systematic review study aimed to analyze productions of national and international literature, referring to extension practices in public and private universities, including articles and dissertations from 2012 to 2019. As a contribution, searches were made in the databases in (SciELO), Google Scholar and the CAPES Journal Portal, prioritizing studies with the application of instruments for analysis. Initially, 28 publications were selected, with eight articles and two dissertations remaining. The results point to extension as an impact on the entirety of the university/community interaction, contributing to a liberating education and transforming the social context.  Thus, the institutional evaluations of these actions demand a more in-depth look at the perception of those involved in relation to extension. In this perspective, monitoring becomes an extremely means to achieve the proposed objectives.