Methodological and Analytical Dimensions of University Extension

Cristofoletti, Evandro Coggo; Serafim, Milena Pavan

Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas/SP - Brazil

Evandro Coggo Cristofolettiis a PhD student in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Campinas (Unicamp). Master in Scientific and Technological Policy and bachelor in Public Policy Management from the same University. Researcher at the Public Sector Studies Laboratory (LESP / Unicamp) and the Innovation Policy Analysis Group (GAPI / Unicamp). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5178-6451 E-mail: evandro.coggo@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5178-6451

Milena Pavan Serafim

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas/SP - Brazil

Milena Pavan Serafimholds a PhD in Scientific and Technological Policy from the University of Campinas (Unicamp) - Brazil. PhD Professor of Public Administration at Unicamp. Researcher at the Public Sector Studies Laboratory (LESP / Unicamp) and the Innovation Policy Analysis Group (GAPI / Unicamp). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7541-4182 E-mail: milenaps@unicamp.br

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7541-4182

Evandro Coggo Cristofolettiis a PhD student in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Campinas (Unicamp). Master in Scientific and Technological Policy and bachelor in Public Policy Management from the same University. Researcher at the Public Sector Studies Laboratory (LESP / Unicamp) and the Innovation Policy Analysis Group (GAPI / Unicamp). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5178-6451 E-mail: evandro.coggo@gmail.com

Milena Pavan Serafimholds a PhD in Scientific and Technological Policy from the University of Campinas (Unicamp) - Brazil. PhD Professor of Public Administration at Unicamp. Researcher at the Public Sector Studies Laboratory (LESP / Unicamp) and the Innovation Policy Analysis Group (GAPI / Unicamp). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7541-4182 E-mail: milenaps@unicamp.br

Methodological Dimension	Dimension Description	Operating Dimension
1. Who does extension	Actor (s) performing extension	- This dimension is identified by: actors who execute, plan, propose, and are directly responsible for the extension activity; - Actors can be: individuals (teachers, students); university body and bodies; institutions in general; - Attention should be paid to how they interact with external social groups;
2. Who is the extension activity intended for?	Actors andtarget social segments or participants of the activities	- Identified by: social segments and actors outside the university involved; - These may be: dispersed individuals and external community in general; companies; state and government agencies; social movements or non-profit civil society organizations; diverse communities (identity, neighborhoods, indigenous, rural). - General attention should be given to how these actors participate in the extension activity in question, ie how they are included and excluded from the process.

Analytical Dimension	Dimension Description	Operational / Methodological Dimension
3. What activities materialize the extent practiced and how does it become institutionalized within the university?	How it operates in material terms and activities / actions, as well as their institutional insertion in the university; what weight and relationship do they have in relation to other extension practices, as well as in relation to teaching and research; what is the systematic and procedural approach to extension	- This dimension is identified by: way of allocation and organization of material, human, institutional and financial resources; methodology anddesign of the activity (programs, projects, courses, incubators, provision of services, events, among others); relationship between teaching, research and extension of activities; institutional insertion of the activity in the face of other extension practices; general institutional insertion of the activity in the university context considered; systematicity, procedurality and eventuality of the activity; - Supply and demand process: degree of offer of practices, in the sense of the adequacy between supply and demand; ways of identifying the needs and demands of the targeted social segments; adjustment processes between demand and supply of the activity.
4. What objectives of extension and why is extension	Motivations and general objectives of the actors who practice it (which do not necessarily relate to extended knowledge); the problems and themes in which extension practice is concerned;	- Identified by the more generic intentions of the actors and institutions that practice it, such as: contributing to economic and social development, satisfying personal needs to help social segments, altruism, among others. There are different political conceptions here, as well as different views on the university's social commitment.

Analytical Dimension	Dimension Description	Operational / Methodological Dimension
5. What kind of knowledge is extended / transferred / built and how is it realized (methodologies and pedagogies used);	Characteristics of extended knowledge - or constructed - through the extension activity considered and the objectives of extending knowledge / constructed; scientific, technical, artistic knowledge; and how the university benefits from the scientific point of view; which methodology and pedagogies are used.	- Characterization of the type of knowledge extended or created: utilitarian technicians (technical intervention in various work processes); comprehensive scientific understanding (phenomena understanding without immediate applicability); cultural (knowledge in the artistic field, for example); any combination of the knowledge raised; - In addition to the type of knowledge, we identify the methodologies used to have this type of transfer or construction together with the community: participatory and dialogical methodologies, action research, participatory research, among others.
6. What are the impacts, "products" and benefits of outreach activities for the external community and the university?	What a difference the extension activity made in the reality of the participating communities, groups or institutions.	-This dimension can be identified qualitatively (through questionnaires, interviews, ethnography, among others) or quantitatively, depending on the practice studied. Impacts will be closely linked to the objectives, actors and types of knowledge and methodologies involved in the process. The results of the activity may also be indirect in relation to its objectives, such as the improvement in interpersonal relationships of individuals in the community, among others.

Analytical Dimension	Dimension Description	Operational / Methodological Dimension
7. How are activities legitimized socially and within the university?	Appreciation that a certain extensionist modality has outside and within the university walls; Moreover, it allows us to understand how the participating actors seek to legitimize what they do;	-Identified the discourse of actors and social segments participating in extension activities regarding the justification of the importance of the practice; -Identification of the ways in which this discourse circulates through the university and social environment (institutional website, publications, events, among others).
8. Social function and social commitment of the university	Consider how the university in which the extension practice studied seeks to meet social demands and problems, ie, decide institutionally (or within departments and colleges) which problems and actors to relate to.	- Identified by the themes, problems and actors by which the university - or any of its departments and faculties that relate to the extension practice studied -identifies itself institutionally and seeks to allocate human and material efforts towards them. One must pay attention to the history of the university.
9. What is the contextual and historical insertion of the extensionist experience?	Historical contexts that cover the analyzed practices, and their relationships. It is proposed that extensionist experiences be observed within a broader economic, political and social context and structure (but directly related to the practice studied).	- Identified by: historical trajectory of the extension activity considered; historical insertion of the university that houses the extension practice; direct and indirect relations between practice and contextual and conjunctural aspects (economy, culture, politics, among others). These include public policies, laws, events and social facts, among others.

[1] Evandro Coggo Cristofolettiis a PhD student in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Campinas (Unicamp). Master in Scientific and Technological Policy and bachelor in Public Policy Management from the same University. Researcher at the Public Sector Studies Laboratory (LESP / Unicamp) and the Innovation Policy Analysis Group (GAPI / Unicamp). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5178-6451 E-mail: evandro.coggo@gmail.com

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