Extensionist experiences in the Project “Images of Life: art, health, history”

scholarship student's report

Abstract

The university extension is one of the pillars of the public university and enables the development of actions with the community, establishing the sharing of knowledge and practices of the academic environment with popular knowledge, aiming to meet the demands of the population and contributing to the transformation of social reality. In the field of health, must promote actions that contribute to the critical and reflective process on the processes of illness and life. The objective of this work is to report experiences in extension actions carried out with the protagonism of a scholarship holder of the project “Images of Life: art, health, history” between March 2019 and October 2021, highlighting the challenges faced during the pandemic. Two thematic cultural shows were organized in a basic family health unit in 2019, and during the pandemic there was a need to direct the project's actions to the virtual environment, with workshops, courses, presentation of papers at events, production of articles. It is concluded that participation in extension actions constitutes a rich learning space for the student, and makes it possible to develop critical and reflective thinking about problems observed in the territory and enables the exchange of knowledge with the community.