The Potentiality of University Extension to Stimulate …
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The idea of playfulness is in the people’s imagination, it’s totally subjective: It is what the
man is throughout his life, the magic, the sacred, the artistic, the scientific, the philosophical
and the juridical are expressions of the playful experiences that constitutes life. It means
experiences like “come and go”, “in and out”, “expand and contract”, “hire and fire”, it is
the creative construction of life while it is experienced.
It can also be said that:
The playful allows a global development and a more real vision of the world. Through discoveries and creativity, children can express, analyze, criticize and transform the reality. If
it is well applied and understood, the playful education can contribute for teaching improvement, in the qualification or critical formation of the pupil, and also to redefine values and
to improve people’s relationships in the society. (Dallabona and Mendes 2004)
Taking into consideration the context previously demonstrated, this article aims
to present how the University Extension Project “Baú de Histórias” is able to create
a sustainable consciousness by stimulating services, territories, children and their
relatives, who are usually in situation of vulnerability so that they can valorize the
ecosystem where they live.
2 The Extension Project
Baú de Histórias consists of a university extension project from the Federal University
of São Paulo operating in Santos in three different areas: education, health and
assistance. The extension works the development of a sustainable awareness by the
use of playful activities and games with recycled materials, giving other purposes to
the material that would be discarded. Therefore it is learned that the right disposal
contributes to the city, as well as health, education and local environment. It is created,
thus, a relation among sustainability, promotion of ecosystems, human rights and
duties of each citizen.
The project provides teamwork experience through shared learning, focusing on
the humanized attention and care of children in situations of vulnerability favoring
its health and development. It also offers education in a playful way with current
issues.
The extension is directly related to the formation process in the Interprofessional
Education in Health following the pedagogical project of the Baixada Santista campus. The project’s coordinators also learn with exchanges and through interaction
with different practical scenarios.
The practices are divided in two parts: one in the university campus and another
in fieldwork. The extension’s members are divided in groups and they intercalate
fieldwork and campus work weekly. A week in the fieldwork and the other on campus.
On campus, supervisions are established by the project’s psychologist, students
have the opportunity to talk about the intervention and make connection between
theory and practice. The on-campus activities include: reading and discussing scientific papers; playful workshops realizations, planning and confection of resources
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The idea of playfulness is in the people’s imagination, it’s totally subjective: It is what the
man is throughout his life, the magic, the sacred, the artistic, the scientific, the philosophical
and the juridical are expressions of the playful experiences that constitutes life. It means
experiences like “come and go”, “in and out”, “expand and contract”, “hire and fire”, it is
the creative construction of life while it is experienced.
It can also be said that:
The playful allows a global development and a more real vision of the world. Through discoveries and creativity, children can express, analyze, criticize and transform the reality. If
it is well applied and understood, the playful education can contribute for teaching improvement, in the qualification or critical formation of the pupil, and also to redefine values and
to improve people’s relationships in the society. (Dallabona and Mendes 2004)
Taking into consideration the context previously demonstrated, this article aims
to present how the University Extension Project “Baú de Histórias” is able to create
a sustainable consciousness by stimulating services, territories, children and their
relatives, who are usually in situation of vulnerability so that they can valorize the
ecosystem where they live.
2 The Extension Project
Baú de Histórias consists of a university extension project from the Federal University
of São Paulo operating in Santos in three different areas: education, health and
assistance. The extension works the development of a sustainable awareness by the
use of playful activities and games with recycled materials, giving other purposes to
the material that would be discarded. Therefore it is learned that the right disposal
contributes to the city, as well as health, education and local environment. It is created,
thus, a relation among sustainability, promotion of ecosystems, human rights and
duties of each citizen.
The project provides teamwork experience through shared learning, focusing on
the humanized attention and care of children in situations of vulnerability favoring
its health and development. It also offers education in a playful way with current
issues.
The extension is directly related to the formation process in the Interprofessional
Education in Health following the pedagogical project of the Baixada Santista campus. The project’s coordinators also learn with exchanges and through interaction
with different practical scenarios.
The practices are divided in two parts: one in the university campus and another
in fieldwork. The extension’s members are divided in groups and they intercalate
fieldwork and campus work weekly. A week in the fieldwork and the other on campus.
On campus, supervisions are established by the project’s psychologist, students
have the opportunity to talk about the intervention and make connection between
theory and practice. The on-campus activities include: reading and discussing scientific papers; playful workshops realizations, planning and confection of resources