FACES OF EXTENSION IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT: A STUDY IN THE LIGHT OF SINAES' EVALUATION POLICY
Extension; Higher education; Sinaes; Academic organization; Assessment.
This project concerns the different aspects of extension in higher education in the Federal District, in light of Sinaes' evaluation policy, and aims to investigate how extension has been materializing in private higher education institutions belonging to different academic organizations in the Federal District (DF). For the study, a qualitative approach will be adopted in an exploratory research. For data collection, document analysis and semi-structured interviews will be used with: academic and extension prorectors, institutional researchers, course coordinators, NDE members and 3 (three) representatives of State bodies. Dialectical historical materialism was chosen as a research method, which allow understanding reality based on the analytical categories: totality, contradiction, mediation and praxis. We discussed, throughout this project, higher education and its policy and evaluation, and established a reflection upon the history of Brazilian higher education and its meanings, seeking to understand the movements developed by extension until the 1990s and from this decade until current days. Such discussions cover the evolution of the private segment of higher education in the Federal District, seeking to understand the emergence of different academic organizations and their impacts on the heterogeneity established in the aforementioned educational system. Furthermore, we deal with extension and the National Higher Education Assessment System, the challenges and contradictions of Sinaes and how extension is evaluated by this policy, which transits through different spaces with contradictory characteristics of regulation and emancipation.