Institutional Self-Evaluation and Curricular Integration of Extension at the University of Brasília: Trajectories and Movements
Sinaes; Curricular Integration of Extension; Institutional SelfEvaluation; University Extension
This research project proposes an investigation into the contradictions between the legal framework and the institutional practice of self-evaluation within the scope of the National System for the Evaluation of Higher Education (Sinaes), focusing on the curricular integration of extension at the University of Brasília (UnB) from 2014 to 2024. It is grounded in the understanding that Sinaes articulates formative evaluation and regulation, assigning institutional self-evaluation a strategic role in quality improvement, public accountability, and support for decision-making. However, it is assumed that the implementation of the curricular integration of extension in everyday university life remains marked by evaluative gaps, limited use of results, and institutional disputes that strain the relationship between normative prescriptions and the materialization of policies. Anchored in the historical-dialectical materialist method, the study understands evaluation as a socially and historically situated practice, permeated by mediations, contradictions, and power asymmetries, seeking to move beyond purely normative and instrumental readings. The project intends to adopt a single-case study design, descriptive-interpretive in nature, with UnB as the investigative locus, combining documentary research and semistructured interviews. Its central objective is to analyze to what extent, how, and under what conditions the results of institutional self-evaluation—produced within the context of Sinaes—are mobilized to guide decisions, reconfigure practices, and address challenges related to the curricular integration of extension. The study expects to identify limitations and potentials, make explicit tensions between regulation and formation, and offer theoreticalmethodological contributions to strengthen participatory evaluative processes consistent with the social function of the public university and with socially referenced quality.