EXTENSION IN TECHNICAL COURSES IN THE DISTANCE MODALITY

Abstract

This work deals with the result of the research developed within the Professional Master's Program in Professional and Technological Education – ProfEPT, which sought to investigate the reasons for the low participation in the extension actions of students of the Subsequent Technical Course in Didactic Multimedia, offered in the distance modality by the Federal Institute of Espírito Santo. As hypotheses for this problem, the lack of time and space within the workload of the servers for extension practices, school culture focused on teaching activities, and the profile of students who do not have time available for extra-curricular activities because they are, for the most part, adults and workers. The general objective was to propose actions that would encourage the extension practice within the course, and the execution of this would take place through an extension action that involved students and employees of the coordination. Conversation circles and meetings were held, the results of which generated four extension actions that demonstrated the importance that the extension practice can represent in enabling the student's contact with the social reality, as well as the need for integration between teaching, research and extension to enable the teaching workload in extension actions.