ACADEMIC CURRICULA AND UNIVERSITY EXTENSION: SENSES IN DISPUTE

This article aims to analyze the senses of academic curriculum and university extension that have been produced and that circulate within academic scope. Investigating materials produced by different social actors who act at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, we are interested in understanding the hegemonic struggles responsible for the extension positioning in academic curricula. Dialoguing with authors who have focused on university (Boaventura de Sousa Santos) and its curricula (Antonio Flavio Moreira), as well as those who have problematized the interfaces between knowledge, power and culture such as Alice Casimiro Lopes and Elizabeth Macedo -, we defend the idea that the extension, as ambivalent space, reproduces and subverts the hegemonic discourses on academic knowledge. The analysis enabled us to identify, in the investigated texts, the presence of ambivalences expressed through subversive marks and, simultaneously, traces of other speeches that participate on hegemonic struggles for the stabilization of senses on university extension. We defend that the extension, getting closer to disciplinary logic, seeks to strengthen itself in the university scope, deviating from the place of inferiority in which has been historically placed and betting on a new field of possibilities, though criticizing the same logic through the notion (also ambivalent) of 'curricular flexibilization'.