The Potentiality of University Extension
to Stimulate Sustainable Awareness
and Ecosystem Valorization in Services,
Territories and with Children and Their
Relatives
Valkiria Guilherme Assis da Silva, Vanessa Ayumi Uezono,
Maria Eduarda Maehara, Bettina Correa da Silva Vostoupal,
Nadja Shinyashiki Igarashi and Lúcia da Rocha Uchôa-Figueiredo
Abstract The University Extension Project “Baú de Histórias” acts in Santos municipality (São Paulo state, Brazil), in three sectors: health, education and social assistance. Students tell stories through dramatization through cooperative interprofessional practice, using residues to make the characters and the scenery. Objective: to
present how the extension can create a sustainable awareness and stimulate services,
territories, children and theirs relatives in vulnerable position, in general, to value the
ecosystem where they live. Method: working topics that encompass sustainability,
recycling and giving other meanings to the materials through playful activities. The
results reveal the potential for interaction between: the university, territories, services and population by empowering children and their relatives as active subjects
and multipliers of actions that transform their environment in a playful way. Consequently, the environment becomes more sustainable, less polluted and with more
playful resources with easy access, promoting its health and development. Final
considerations: the extension’s practical experience is based on interprofessional
education and integral and humanized care. Providing a different teaching-learning
V. G. Assis da Silva (B) · V. A. Uezono · M. E. Maehara · B. C. da Silva Vostoupal ·
N. S. Igarashi · L. da Rocha Uchôa-Figueiredo
Federal University of São Paulo, Campus Baixada Santista (UNIFESP/BS), Santos, São Paulo,
Brazil
e-mail: valkiriaassis.nutri@gmail.com
V. A. Uezono
e-mail: vanessauezono@gmail.com
M. E. Maehara
e-mail: me.maehara@gmail.com
B. C. da Silva Vostoupal
e-mail: bettina@vostoupal.com
N. S. Igarashi
e-mail: na.shinyashiki@gmail.com
L. da Rocha Uchôa-Figueiredo
e-mail: uchoalucia@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_42
701
to Stimulate Sustainable Awareness
and Ecosystem Valorization in Services,
Territories and with Children and Their
Relatives
Valkiria Guilherme Assis da Silva, Vanessa Ayumi Uezono,
Maria Eduarda Maehara, Bettina Correa da Silva Vostoupal,
Nadja Shinyashiki Igarashi and Lúcia da Rocha Uchôa-Figueiredo
Abstract The University Extension Project “Baú de Histórias” acts in Santos municipality (São Paulo state, Brazil), in three sectors: health, education and social assistance. Students tell stories through dramatization through cooperative interprofessional practice, using residues to make the characters and the scenery. Objective: to
present how the extension can create a sustainable awareness and stimulate services,
territories, children and theirs relatives in vulnerable position, in general, to value the
ecosystem where they live. Method: working topics that encompass sustainability,
recycling and giving other meanings to the materials through playful activities. The
results reveal the potential for interaction between: the university, territories, services and population by empowering children and their relatives as active subjects
and multipliers of actions that transform their environment in a playful way. Consequently, the environment becomes more sustainable, less polluted and with more
playful resources with easy access, promoting its health and development. Final
considerations: the extension’s practical experience is based on interprofessional
education and integral and humanized care. Providing a different teaching-learning
V. G. Assis da Silva (B) · V. A. Uezono · M. E. Maehara · B. C. da Silva Vostoupal ·
N. S. Igarashi · L. da Rocha Uchôa-Figueiredo
Federal University of São Paulo, Campus Baixada Santista (UNIFESP/BS), Santos, São Paulo,
Brazil
e-mail: valkiriaassis.nutri@gmail.com
V. A. Uezono
e-mail: vanessauezono@gmail.com
M. E. Maehara
e-mail: me.maehara@gmail.com
B. C. da Silva Vostoupal
e-mail: bettina@vostoupal.com
N. S. Igarashi
e-mail: na.shinyashiki@gmail.com
L. da Rocha Uchôa-Figueiredo
e-mail: uchoalucia@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_42
701