The Potentiality of University Extension to Stimulate …
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These reused and redefined scraps are used to prepare the stories and to make
playful activities. They are used to make the characters and scenarios. Each group of
extensionists structure their intervention according to the institution they are going to,
taking into consideration the field’s features and their specific contexts. The activities
planning is made focusing the demands of the public, which includes professionals
and children. The demand may also be observed by the extensionists during the interventions. The issues addressed are, in general, oriented toward environmental care,
health care and interpersonal relationships. In this way, values as equality, respect,
fraternity and education are also worked in the project. So the project, whenever
is possible, aims to improve the public’s interaction and accession to the activities
proposed.
The proposal to create toys and stories from recycled materials stimulates the
creativity so that every type of material may be transformed and developed into
something new. By means of recycling workshop executions, meeting participations,
conversations with the professionals and activities in toy rooms, every person who
is involved in the project becomes a multiplier of a sustainable awareness.
The main focus in the different contexts of acting is to include the child, family,
professionals and extensionists directly in the transformation process of the scraps;
being the child the main bond of contact and change. The inclusion allows, therefore,
the formation of an environmental awareness and involves all the networks to work
in favor of sustainability.
The sustainable education is a very extensive issue and it can be applied to various
settings. The multipliers can, finally, spread the information and act towards sustainability inside and outside the institutions connecting this issue to other activities of
their daily life.
7 Conclusion: Work With Children May Be a Key Point
to the Sustainable Development of Cities
and Communities
The playful is an important educative instrument and it is considered essential in
the development of a child. It contemplates psychological, social, emotional and
physical aspects. Besides that, it promotes the individual’s autonomy and there is
an improvement in its life quality. The child’s action is reflected by the playing that
encompasses the main elements of fantasy. When the child performs it different from
its routine, it creates a parallel reality, in which the playful is processed. The project
contributes, thus, to stimulate the playful and fantasy along with the creation of a
more sustainable consciousness (Aguiar and Gomes 2011).
The storytelling in the University Extension is promoted in a more dynamic and
theatralised way, in which the involved ones interact directly exercising their imagination and fantasy, being not only extensionists responsible for creating the stories,
but also the public (children, teachers, nurses, relatives and employees) to whom the
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These reused and redefined scraps are used to prepare the stories and to make
playful activities. They are used to make the characters and scenarios. Each group of
extensionists structure their intervention according to the institution they are going to,
taking into consideration the field’s features and their specific contexts. The activities
planning is made focusing the demands of the public, which includes professionals
and children. The demand may also be observed by the extensionists during the interventions. The issues addressed are, in general, oriented toward environmental care,
health care and interpersonal relationships. In this way, values as equality, respect,
fraternity and education are also worked in the project. So the project, whenever
is possible, aims to improve the public’s interaction and accession to the activities
proposed.
The proposal to create toys and stories from recycled materials stimulates the
creativity so that every type of material may be transformed and developed into
something new. By means of recycling workshop executions, meeting participations,
conversations with the professionals and activities in toy rooms, every person who
is involved in the project becomes a multiplier of a sustainable awareness.
The main focus in the different contexts of acting is to include the child, family,
professionals and extensionists directly in the transformation process of the scraps;
being the child the main bond of contact and change. The inclusion allows, therefore,
the formation of an environmental awareness and involves all the networks to work
in favor of sustainability.
The sustainable education is a very extensive issue and it can be applied to various
settings. The multipliers can, finally, spread the information and act towards sustainability inside and outside the institutions connecting this issue to other activities of
their daily life.
7 Conclusion: Work With Children May Be a Key Point
to the Sustainable Development of Cities
and Communities
The playful is an important educative instrument and it is considered essential in
the development of a child. It contemplates psychological, social, emotional and
physical aspects. Besides that, it promotes the individual’s autonomy and there is
an improvement in its life quality. The child’s action is reflected by the playing that
encompasses the main elements of fantasy. When the child performs it different from
its routine, it creates a parallel reality, in which the playful is processed. The project
contributes, thus, to stimulate the playful and fantasy along with the creation of a
more sustainable consciousness (Aguiar and Gomes 2011).
The storytelling in the University Extension is promoted in a more dynamic and
theatralised way, in which the involved ones interact directly exercising their imagination and fantasy, being not only extensionists responsible for creating the stories,
but also the public (children, teachers, nurses, relatives and employees) to whom the