Abstract
In this work, we intend to share and analyze a teaching-learning experience that tried to articulate the academic formation of undergraduates in Psychology with the professional formation of workers of the Social Assistance National Policy, configuring itself simultaneously as a political-pedagogic and an intervention process. The experience was developed within a discipline of the Psychology undergraduate course in a federal university in Brazil Northeast region, considering precepts related to the practice of university extension as political and epistemological action, and to the National Policy of Permanent Education of the Unified Social Assistance System. We used a dialogical methodology to construct the work, which entailed several negotiation stages involving teachers, managers, students, and workers, as shown in this text. The meetings were marked by the indissociability between practice and theory. The reflections highlighted the importance of qualification and politicization of teaching-learning practices in Psychology and of the action of workers inserted in the social assistance policy. Likewise, they pointed out the complexities that characterize the work with populations that live in situation of inequality and social exclusion, concentrating on the specificities of both Brazilian and local contexts, approaching issues such as racialization and gendering of poverty. The evaluation of the experience carried out allows us to state that turning the classroom into a space for sharing practices and knowledges, integrated to the fields of professional practice, with the creation of counter-hegemonic learning processes against the traditional perspectives, making everyone co-participant in their own education, is possible.
Keywords:
Psychology; Education; Epistemic disobedience; Social assistance public policy