The creation and implementation of the extension program AFRID of the Faculty of Physical Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (1989-2014)

Abstract

This article is the result of a master degree research carried out in the Post-Graduation Program in Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the line of history education and historiography. The objective of this research was the extension program called Physical and Recreational Activities for the Elderly (AFRID), the time cut goes from 1989, year of creation of the program, until 2014, the year of its 25th year of uninterrupted operation, with the objective to highlight the context of its creation and implementation as an extension action. As theoretical basis, the philosophy of praxis was used. This study is qualitative by nature, using the documentary sources, crossing them among themselves, in the construction of the history of AFRID. Notably, extension in Brazilian universities underwent a number of transformations, which reflected in the extension actions in UFU and AFRID that, during the period studied, developed numerous projects, benefited the elderly population and contributed to the formation of students, promoting an extension that makes one think, which proposes solutions and, above all, causes the dissolution of old welfare paradigms, collaborating in the construction of new ideas and meanings for university extension.