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In this paper we present part of the results of a master's research. The research was developed in the thematic field of drugs from the perspective of popular education, having as an empirical field the Boy's Home, a socio-educational unit located in the municipality of Lagoa Seca, State of Paraíba, Brasil. Methodologically, it has been a qualitative research developed through unsystematic observations in the Boy's Home and through semi-structured interviews with teachers from the School of that institution. The empirical material from the interviews was analyzed according to the Thematic Analysis procedures of Braun and Clarke (2006). Among other findings, we identified that teachers do not have systematized knowledge about popular education, but they develop actions that are close to their postulates. As a conclusion, we highlight, for example, the need to offer continuous formation to the teachers of the investigated institution, so that the approaches of popular education can be effectively developed in said context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, of a theoretical and essayistic nature, aims to investigate the scientific production of the last 21 years in the Annals of the National Meetings of the National Association for Postgraduate Studies and Research in Education (ANPEd), specifically Working Group 06 -- Popular Education. To do this, we searched for generating words in these publications and tried to understand how this educational praxis has been building its worldview through the research and practices that support it. The methodology was based on a qualitative, descriptive, and analytical study using the State of the Art. We used the Voyant tools application to collect the data. The theoretical corpus consists of 48 Expanded Abstracts and 223 full papers, with the participation of 245 authors and 93 authors. The data was analyzed by taking the ten most frequently generated words in these publications and linking them to specific references. The results indicate that the Popular Education that emerges from the WG06 research is biophilic and mostly Freirian, feminine, and feminist. What's more, PE went to school! The research and action processes establish paths with peripheral social groups with whom practices in school/non-school education, health and culture are investigated, mediated by the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Oral and Maxillofacial Anatomy and Traumatology League (LATIUM) of Federal University of Ceará (UFC), campus Sobral, provides clinical and scientific activities to the academic. The League has been working for two years, with 220 patients attended, scientific papers presented at conferences and congresses in Brazil, publication of scientific articles and organization of courses and classes aimed at the academic community of Dentistry. The objective of this article is to report the experience of the operation and logistics of an extension project in the countryside Ceará to society and to the scientific community. The project has already provided assistance to 220 inhabitants of the northern region of Ceará and training of approximately 340 academics with interest in the specialty approached. It concluded that LATIUM promotes several opportunities and benefits both for the academics of UFC and for the population of Sobral, served and assisted by the activities promoted by the League, and besides raising the quality of teaching, encouraging research and integrating extension in an effective and practical way to the student who wishes to participate in extension projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the goals of the University extension project "How to use the Law", realized in Porto Seguro, State of Bahia, Brazil, was to identify methodologies of other projects about education about rights in schools to be used in posterior activities. In order to do so, we analyzed papers published at the Human rights and Justice session of the Brazilian Congress on University Extension Annals since 2012. We found thirteen papers, mostly from North, South and Southeast regions about: human rights education, bullying, Statute of Children and Adolescents, violence, racism, social inequality, sexuality, family relationships, restorative justice, illicit psychotropic substances, peace culture, and others. In general, the projects related in the papers are interdisciplinary. Some of them exhibit movies and a few others engage with other institutions and professionals. They face the challenges of improper material conditions of execution, the need to adapt the legal language to the specific public and the ambivalence of rights that can provide either emancipation or discipline. Although some papers describe how successful the projects were, it would be useful to describe in detail the methods, techniques and materials used in the activities, as well as the underlying concepts of teaching and extension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to changes in the demographic, and the consequent aging of the population, it is essential to disseminate ways of bringing health knowledge to the elderly population, primarily to provide active and healthy aging. Thus, this paper reports the experience of actions designed at sharing information about aging with residents of the city of Uruguaiana-RS, Brazil. For this, from the creation of the "HappyAge" project, a partnership was established between an Academic League and a local radio station, as this media reaches different segments of the population and has a prominent role in the democratization of information. The actions were carried out weekly, in a dialogue format, between two students and the radio broadcaster. The chosen topics included themes such as hypertension and diabetes, as well as less explored subjects such as mental health and sexuality in the elderly. The topic definitions occurred together with the teachers involved in the project. At the end of the project, through interaction with the listeners, via digital communication platform, it became evident that there are beneficial effects to the general community when health knowledge is shared. Furthermore, the academics involved were also positively affected, since they deepened their communicative abilities and knowledge construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The university extension is one of the pillars of the public university and enables the development of actions with the community, establishing the sharing of knowledge and practices of the academic environment with popular knowledge, aiming to meet the demands of the population and contributing to the transformation of social reality. In the field of health, must promote actions that contribute to the critical and reflective process on the processes of illness and life. The objective of this work is to report experiences in extension actions carried out with the protagonism of a scholarship holder of the project "Images of Life: art, health, history" between March 2019 and October 2021, highlighting the challenges faced during the pandemic. Two thematic cultural shows were organized in a basic family health unit in 2019, and during the pandemic there was a need to direct the project's actions to the virtual environment, with workshops, courses, presentation of papers at events, production of articles. It is concluded that participation in extension actions constitutes a rich learning space for the student, and makes it possible to develop critical and reflective thinking about problems observed in the territory and enables the exchange of knowledge with the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to present the results obtained by the project "Ginástica Geral e Atividades Circenses (GGAC) [General Gymnastics and Circus Activities, in Free Translation]", the population affected and the products generated. The GGAC intends to expand the training of the academics from the Physical Education course of the Pantanal Campus of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and at the same time, offer to the academics from the other courses and external community the possibility of knowing and experiencing the circus activities. The circus activities in the project were designed to foster the learning of technical skills (mainly the gymnastics) and the physical capacities necessary for its execution, an aesthetic education regarding forms and gestures and, as far as possible, instigating artistic creativity. During the first year of the GGAC, four artistic presentations were held, a study and research group was created, four papers presented at congresses and three papers for the conclusion of the course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to describe the experience of nursing school students in the development of Reception with Risk Classification for professionals and users of a Basic Health Unit. The paper is an experience report that shows the action developed by 8th semester students in the Internship I module of Vale do Acaraú State University nursing major, in the implementation of Reception with Risk Classification at a Basic Health Unit in northwestern Ceará. The actions were organized in six meetings, two of them assembled the professionals of the nursing team, one encompassed all the staff of the Basic Health Unit, and three brought together the unit service users. Based on subjects and materials previously studied, the meetings allowed for the construction of devices that facilitate the participants learning. The results of the study are presented and discussed in two essential topics for the development of methodologies: work organization and transformation of professional practices; and optimization of the service to/for the population. The strategies of permanent education adopted in the experience with the professionals of the unit and of health education, as well as the unit users can be regarded as an enhancer in the transformation of work practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the university extension actions developed at the Dr. Karlos Kluwe State High School, in Bagé, State of Rio Grande do Sul, within the scope of the project "Development of a database of the Negro River bay, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil", approved in the Program for Initiation in Sciences, Math, Engineering, Creative Technologies and Letters (PICMEL) of the Research Support Foundation from Rio Grande do Sul (Fapergs). The main objective of the extension actions was to train the project's scholarship owners (six students and two teachers from a high school) to work with geoprocessing applied to water resources and territorial management. The method used for the development of the project consisted of: a) definition of extension actions; b) action planning; c) carrying out the planned actions; and d) evaluation of the actions taken. From the completion of the programmed actions, the students were able to elaborate the proposed activities, assisting in the development of the bay area database. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the experience of executing the Institutional Extension Program Integrated Formative Actions (Afin), from the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), at the Patos de Minas Campus, from its implementation to the most recent edition, concluded in 2019. The entire structure of the program developed is described in this text, as well as the social and educational profile of the student attending the course, the difficulties encountered in carrying it out and the challenges to be overcome. Through testimonials from scholarship students (program teachers) and course students (pre-university students), some of the transformations that an extension program can contribute are presented: community transformations, personal transformations in the work team and also institutional transformation. Thus, contributing to the understanding of the extension concept and its importance to society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results obtained in the development of an extension program registered at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, titled as Math and Chemistry Show, which used the theater methodology as a form of teaching-learning for Mathematics and Chemistry. This program lasted nine months, and it had several stages, such as study, dissemination and application. The program was applied in some state schools of several regions of the city of Uberaba, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The program's preference was to attend students who were studying between the 9th year of elementary school and the 2nd year of high school, but students' enrollments were not forbidden for students in other school years. At the end there was an event with presentations of the students participating, in order to demonstrate how much they learned during the program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aimed to report the experiences of an extension project conducted by the Federal University of Alfenas in partnership with EMATER-MG regional Alfenas, aiming to implement and evaluate twelve units were deployed in cities with dairy tradition in the South of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in order to adapt the integrated crop-livestock-forest (ILPF) to local realities, with restoring degraded areas, intensifying the use of pastures and implementing protected areas in springs and or riparian vegetation. There were performed four field days, with the training of 138 farmers, besides the use of these properties in courses and environment for cattle producers and technicians. Crop-livestock-forest (ILPF) systems present themselves as viable alternatives for improving income generation and environmental services in the properties, complying with the requirements imposed by environmental legislation. Thus, the smallholders and the society were benefited with the preservation of the environment. Thus, allowing an effective construction of knowledge between the smallholders, the community served, academics, teachers and EMATER-MG. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is an economic tool that can be used in waste management as a way of encouraging the work of waste pickers and, consequently, recycling. Payment for the work done is a demand from many waste picker organizations in Brazil, which do an important service to society by allowing recyclable materials to return to the production cycle rather than being discarded in landfills. This was a claim from the waste pickers associations of Viçosa, State of Minas Gerais, and to address this, this paper set out to draft a PES policy proposal. The results were presented to the Viçosa Waste and Citizenship Forum, in 2017, and led to discussions that culminated in the hiring of two associations of municipal waste pickers by the Autonomous Water and Sewage Service of Viçosa in 2018. It concludes the importance of University works to be applicable to the reality that surrounds it, in order to fulfill its role and bring about real changes in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect on the teaching of Spanish in high school classes of Young and Adult People Education (YAPE). The theoretical framework is based on documents of federal agencies and on works about the YAPE functions, its students' profile, the role of the teachers, the teaching of a foreign language and, in special, the teaching of Spanish. It is defended that problems such as the inadequacy of materials and of the approaches, that hinder the deconstruction of negative beliefs of YAPE students in learning a foreign language, are aggravated by the fact that these students come to school, in general, unsure about their ability to master new formal knowledge. In addition to the theoretical data, some pedagogical experiences of one of the authors of this study, as a Spanish teacher, in high school YAPE classes, where the contextualization of activities and the dialogue with students were preponderant factors for the implementation of a quality teaching-learning process, are related. Finally, based on the reflection about the results achieved with the reported activities, this study tries to prove the importance of teaching Spanish to increase not only the knowledge and self-esteem of young and adult learners, but also their social inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper emerges from theoretical discussions about the relationship between Brazilian rural education and popular education. The objective is to present some historical, conceptual and methodological aspects, as well as the political-pedagogical principles of these two educational projects, in order to understand which paths are necessary for the realization of education in an emancipatory perspective. In this perspective, we point out the concepts of emancipation, participation and social control, as being important to the basis of the discussions. The methodological approach is qualitative, with bibliographic and documentary characteristics. As conclusions, we understand that the paths for the realization of an emancipating education go through the involvement of the subjects in the formative processes that compose it. In this sense, it is necessary for the subjects involved in these processes to think and reflect collectively on their actions and, from this reflected action, build new ways of solving the problems of reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are significant differences between the teaching and learning of urban schools and field schools. This paper discusses the use of social technology projects for field education and its benefits. For that, a descriptive research of qualitative approach was developed in four projects of social technologies, in the areas of valorization and development of the society of the field. As results, several benefits have been identified in field education, such as the school that forms articulated subjects for a project of human emancipation, thus making the peasant environment a place that provides better life possibilities for the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will present and discuss the data extracted from a course of continuing education of teachers of the area of Natural Sciences, held at the Federal University of Pampa- Unipampa of the campus of Caçapava do Sul, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The experience indicates the development of skills in the process of elaboration and problem solving that can be carried out in the course of immersion with teachers of the Natural Sciences areas and this is linked to the formation of a group of continuing teacher training, as well as justifies the need to establish a teaching group based on the study of Problem Solving in Science Teaching. The results show that the work developed facilitated the improvement of skills in teachers, as well as contributed to minimize the difficulties encountered in teaching practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to reflect on the relevance of the Extension Project "Ouvidoria Acolhidas" in its first two years at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). This paper is divided in three parts. The first is a brief presentation of the Project and its scope. Then, the main activities carried out in the chosen period are highlighted, emphasizing the consolidation of actions to seek legal solutions, institutional transformations and addressing inequality, violence and gender aggression in the institution's internal community, as well as its insertion in a broader context of creation of ombudsmen and networks to confront violence in several public educational institutions of the country in recent years. Finally, we stress the positive outcomes obtained in this period, establishing the importance of those extension activities as a means of reducing the various forms of aggression and gender violence practiced in the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the possibilities and challenges of Popular Education (PE) as a reference for medical work in the context of the Family and Community Medicine Residence. It is a comprehensive and interpretive study conducted in João Pessoa, State of Paraíba, Brazil, with residents of the second year of the Family and Community Medicine Residency linked to the Federal University of Paraíba, through the group discussion methodology. The results evidenced PE's potential for medical work, such as shared knowledge construction, integrated work with community health agents and other professionals, as well as the establishment of community groups and medical consultations as educational spaces. Obstacles to the practice of PE emerged, such as: high care pressure and conflicts with management models that focused predominantly on outpatient care. It is concluded that PE is a strategy present in the daily work of the residents, but its implementation suffers difficulties to be overcome for real effectiveness as a tool for enhancing medical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a product of the subproject entitled "Interdisciplinary Conceptions and Practices in Youth and Adult Education -- YEA", linked to the umbrella project "Interdisciplinary perspectives in education". The approach is qualitative, anchored to a theoretical-documentary apparatus linked to the field searched. For the reading and interpretation of the selected laws and texts, phenomenological hermeneutics was chosen. This paper aims to present a theoretical-methodological reflection based on some legal documents about the YEA in Brazil, as well as on the pedagogical-curricular proposals and the contents that structure it, embedded in the teaching-learning process, based on a proposal which is pedagogical, liberating, humanizing and emancipatory. Through this work, we hope to strengthen the creation of humanizing practices, through cultural circles, centered on the equality of free and autonomous participation with the aim of forming equally autonomous, critical, creative, conscious, and jointly willing subjects to transform themselves, the relations they establish between themselves and the environment in which they live, and the structures of social life, breaking the ongoing dehumanization and demanding a position in the face of exclusion and oppression experienced every day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present some reflections on the federal literacy programs developed for young and adult people, in the last fifty years in Brazil, based on a bibliographic and documental research. In order to do so, it presents a brief history of these programs and evidences their main objectives, strategies and problems. In this analysis, it was considered that the educational methodological proposals to this public would be more successful if some ideas of the Paulo Freire were taken in consideration. This study was based on academic works about literacy of young and adult people and about the literacy programs analyzed, as well as some documents and news from government agencies. It concluded that these federal programs have not achieved their goals mostly because there was discontinuity in the educational public policies and lack of effective commitment from many public managers with the literacy of young and adult people. It was also observed that inadequate strategies were adopted, even when the interaction with Freire's ideas was planned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's society, the debate about the environment has fundamental importance. Thus, the academic and scientific perspectives are expanded by the university extension, generating, also, new assumptions and results. Therefore, one of the workshops of the Rondon Project, "Operation Forte dos Reis Magos 2016", in the municipality of Acari, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, was the one about "environment", which took place in early childhood education, elementary school, and secondary school and teacher training, reaching out to teachers, students and local society. The workshops of environment sought to raise awareness, problematize and empower the environment associated with local society and its concerns. For this, we worked with a bibliographical survey about the environment and university extension that supported the construction of the booklet material used in the application of the workshops. This paper has as main objective to present the experience with the environmental workshops in an extension activity in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. The methodological procedures were: bibliographical survey, accomplishment of extension activities and systematization of the results. The results were of environment awareness, since the reality in which the county is inserted is directly related to the environmental issue, especially regarding access to water and about the vegetation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health education should solve problems and situations that cause diseases. One of the diseases that affect school children is pediculosis which causes poor school performance. This paper aims to report teaching and extension activities of surveillance and education related to arthropod that are vectors and cause of diseases, such as pediculosis. It also aims to report control aspects of social welfare to prevent the proliferation of insects. The paper has four stages. First, we raise the needs of children, the numbers of Municipal Children's Education Centers (MCEC) and their locations. On the second and third stages, we make dolls and lice of cloth, fun games and a video about lice. The fourth step is the development of educational activities with the children. Through this experience we observe the importance of nursing and theoretical information to children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More recently, the university extension became a third mission formally recognized in the universities. First, university extension was seen as a unidirectional activity devoted to the dissemination of academic knowledge to the extramural community and to service practices. Now, extension came to be understood as a dialogic interaction with society. As a result, an educational dimension has been attributed to the university extension. As a tool for learning and knowledge creation, the extension may contribute to the development of their students and professionals. This article aims to introduce the concept of university extension and its most significant changes throughout history, identifying the emergence of the practice of university extension as a pedagogical tool. From this, it discusses the possibilities of extension insertion in qualifying formative trajectory of university students. Investigation papers about the pedagogical impact of university extension are presented seeking to discuss the contribution of this activity to qualify university and its graduates. Published papers show that university extension can significantly influence university education, particularly in the civic-political, affective and behavioral aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyzes the student experience in the workshop "Theatro José de Alencar in scene: drama and creation of narratives", an extensionist activity of the discipline of "Drama as a teaching method", offered to the students of the course of teacher certification in Theater of the Federal University of Ceará, State of Ceará, Brazil. It addresses questions on the importance of university extension as a curricular component in teacher training in theater and the promotion of environments that favor the development of the autonomy of the graduates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Primary Health Care is the coordinator of Health Care network in Brazil because its characteristics make it to be closer to community living and social needs. In this sense, Contagem, Minas Gerais, is a city of Brazilian southern and has been carrying out many actions in order to strengthen Primary Health Care, for example, its First Primary Health Care Exhibition. This article aims to analyze presented papers in this event. It was approached through the qualitative research through systematization of experiences popular education's method. The results were presented and discussed according to the topics used in that event: Management and Working Teams; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Health Care and Care Technologies; Continuing Education and Pro-work Training; Popular Management and Social Control and Health Surveillance Practices in Primary Health Care Territory. The most frequent actions were those related to prevention of injuries, health promotion, health care and care technologies. Management support and participants adherence were facilitators factors to positive results of experiences. The lack of available resources led to the restriction of health care workers performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the experience of the extension project entitled "DNA in the time tunnel". This project was developed with high school finalists students of a public school in the city of Coari, State of Amazonas, Brazil, aiming to provide students and teachers of biology and chemistry, teaching and learning about the historical context of the elucidation of DNA. The intervention was carried out in two stages: the first was the bibliographic research and planning and preparation of materials with playful bias, showing the contribution of each researcher and a gymkhana as an instrument to contribute to the learning of biology and the execution of extensionist activities with students and teachers. The project actions have contributed to the planning of the dynamic pedagogical practices, which granted the needs and interests of the involved students; to the enrichment of the knowledge on the subject addressed by secondary students, training them with matters of biology that are in the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM) and other selective processes of entry to higher education; to the teaching and learning of biological disciplines of the curriculum of the respective college freshmen courses of the Institute of health and biotechnology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the experience of the extension project entitled "DNA in the time tunnel". This project was developed with high school finalists students of a public school in the city of Coari, State of Amazonas, Brazil, aiming to provide students and teachers of biology and chemistry, teaching and learning about the historical context of the elucidation of DNA. The intervention was carried out in two stages: the first was the bibliographic research and planning and preparation of materials with playful bias, showing the contribution of each researcher and a gymkhana as an instrument to contribute to the learning of biology and the execution of extensionist activities with students and teachers. The project actions have contributed to the planning of the dynamic pedagogical practices, which granted the needs and interests of the involved students; to the enrichment of the knowledge on the subject addressed by secondary students, training them with matters of biology that are in the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM) and other selective processes of entry to higher education; to the teaching and learning of biological disciplines of the curriculum of the respective college freshmen courses of the Institute of health and biotechnology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modern cooperative movement is historically associated with a struggle for recognition of the services performed by its members in the context of market relations. There are, however, social, political and cultural issues in the context of cooperative practices that can accommodate educational and learning processes. Members learn from the social and economic relations behind cooperation since different practices and educational activities can be found in cooperatives, even if diluted in its membership dealings. This paper wishes to reflect on the relationship between education and cooperation in order to encourage critical thinking on the part of members of a cooperative so that they may play an active role in their organizations. The passage draws on the theoretical and critical reflections stemming from the authors' many decades of experience with cooperative organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an experience report of the undergraduate students of health courses at the Federal University of Tocantins in the extension project "Acordes: the theater and playful as health education intervention" between 2009 and 2013. We based the project on the most important theatrical topics of the aesthetics proposed by Augusto Boal in The Oppressed Theater, which were useful to the popular health education and show the individual and public role of one towards public health. It avoids the typical boundaries between popular and scientific knowledge. The project reached an audience of approximately 4.200 people, involved 67 undergraduate and resulted in a satisfying experience to acquiring new communication skills and a new way of thinking the human being as a citizen member of a public, free and universal health system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses can assess the risk of developing pressure ulcers by validated scales, such as the Braden Scale. In this respect, the Extension Project Skin Care (Cuidados e Supervisão da Pele) aimed to assess the risk and prevent pressure ulcers in an oncology unit. Thus, this paper is an experience report of students and professors involved in the project. The activities were carried out in an oncology sector of a large hospital in the Midwest of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. They comprised the assessment for the risk of developing pressure ulcers, guidelines for patients and companions on the prevention of pressure ulcer in hospitals besides care procedures and optimal coverage for the treatment of the lesion. Training activities have also been provided to professionals and students of the health sector in order to inform about the problem. Pressure ulcer awareness campaigns should also be encouraged and implemented during hospitalization of risk patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to introduce the architectural design for the headquarters of the Rheumatics Association of Uberlândia and Region (Associação de Reumáticos de Uberlândia e Região - ARUR). This project is a result of an extension program developed by professors, technicians and students in the Projects Laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Design (Laboratório de Projetos da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo e Design - FAUeD) at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). The activities to be carried out in that space includes physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, acupuncture and occupational therapy and gymnastics. The project envisions rooms for medical, psychological and legal services and seeks to provide an environment for the members to interact, in addition to promoting social events to raise funds for the association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a report of the participation of primary school students as illustrators of the children's books collection Pequenos Curiosos. This collection consists of 10 titles and aims to promote science in the Vale do Jequitinhonha and in the Vale do Mucuri, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The children, with ages of 8 to 12 years, chose the main themes, which consisted of curiosities about chemistry, physics and biology. Short stories were elaborated involving the explanation and contextualization of the subject, and, after reading the text, the kids created the illustrations. We then proceeded with the layout, printing, launching and promotion of the books. The public/state schools of these two places received the book collection for free. The participation of the children as illustrators and readers of the collection brought an increased interest in reading other works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The biological contamination of the water is a serious problem in the Amazon rainforest, which has environmental and public health implications. Thus, this problem is a consequence of the precarious government planning of basic sanitation infrastructure in rural communities and cities. The distances between the residencies in the rural areas make difficult the adoption of centralized systems of collection and sewage treatment. In this context, the dry ecological toilet is an alternative option for decentralized sanitation. However, the prototype developed and implanted in other regions of the country is not appropriate to the characteristics of the Amazon riverside areas, which has periodic flooding, associated to rainy season cycle and the daily tidal flux. In this paper, we discuss the relevancy of the problem and present a proposal to adapt the ecological dry toilet to these areas. Te potentialities of the riverside ecological toilet (BER), as a social technology of decentralized sanitation, are discussed based on monitoring of parameters -- such as odor and the presence of insects -- and of evaluation of subjective and behavioral aspects such as welfare, environmental conscience. These evaluations started with the installation of a prototype at Ilha das Onças, State of Pará, Brazil. We also observe a detailed description of the construction project, including the materials that were used and the cost of the prototype of the riverside ecological toilet. The information are sufficient for replication of this social technology and be useful to encourage new adaptations and improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the results of an extension project and aims to discuss how the residents of Saramenha de Cima, located in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state, perceive and appropriate of the heritage concept of the city and of the neighborhood on which they live. This analysis are based on written documents that report the history of the neighborhood and interviews with the residents. We also aim to observe if Saramenha residents appropriate themselves of heritage concepts of Ouro Preto's historic center and the way this dialogue is accomplished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the educational activities carried out with children, young people and adults from public schools in Viçosa, Alagoas state, Brazil. These activities comprehend the main forms of control and prevention of disease caused by biological vectors, focusing on dengue and leishmaniasis. Initially, an epidemiological questionnaire was applied to local residents to investigate their knowledge about this theme. Based on the analysis of results, the team developed and presented lectures and brochures about the disease and its main forms of prevention. We proposed educational animations of public consultation in accordance with the age of the participants, which were divided between children and young people/adults. We observe the interaction between participants and the topics, which were explained by oral questions and clarification about the diseases at the end of the presentations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is a reflection about the main services developed by the Institute for Sustainable Development of Agriculture and Forestry of the State of Amazonas (Instituto de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Florestal Sustentável do Estado do Amazonas - Idam). It aims to analyze the importance of the Idam for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural - Ater) in Amazonas state, identifying how the provision of such services is carried out under the perspective of the National Policy of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (Política Nacional de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural - Pnater). We observe in the theoretical approach that there is a lack of financial incentive and many limitations of the institute, which leads to major problems. The Idam has important role to the development of family farming in the Amazonas state, since they have mediated access to the public policy to these farmers. The Ater services in Brazil and in Amazonas state changed considerably after the implementation of Pnater. Despite the focus of the Ater in the state still be predominantly diffusionist, we observe an efforts of the entity to incorporate the focus of the new Ater. So it is possible to infer that the extensionists from the entity have worked within the limitations as facilitators of the rural development process, helping to improve the lives of farmers of the Amazonas state through the services developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of the project "Science Fair and Scientific Exhibitions: scientific development within the rural areas and the city of Sobral, Ceará state" (Feira de ciências e mostras científicas: desenvolvimento científico no espaço do campo e do urbano do município de Sobral-CE). It was developed with students from the 9th year of primary education and 1st and 2nd years of secondary education from public schools in Sobral. During the activities, we associate the students' knowledge with the innovation knowledge, science, technology and culture, in the different areas, interacting with the local reality. The methodology was based on the implementation of the Science Fair and Scientific Exhibitions, which provides materials for schools and conditions for the exhibition of their research. 53 studies participated in the project, which highlights a high level of motivation of students and mentor teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an experience report of an extension project aiming to introduce entrepreneurship in secondary schools in the Vale do Taquari, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The project was carried out through a workshop on which pedagogical practices were based on active methodologies for teaching and learning. The sessions were 4 class-hours in theme rooms from UNIVATES University Center in Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. First, it aimed to reach 25 groups of students from 73 secondary schools, 500 students. The students affirm that the contents of these classes have practical application and expand their knowledge. Therefore, they praised planning during the activities and the ability of communication and relationship with the group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the experience of the Grupo de Mulheres de Batatan e Bom Gosto (Batatan and Bom Gosto Women's Group), rural communities located in the municipal-ities of Maragojipe and São Felipe, state of Bahia, Brazil. This study approaches the incubation and advisory services process developed by the Incubadora de Empreendimentos Solidários (Solidary Enterprise Incubator) of the Federal University of Reconcavo da Bahia (INCUBA/UFRB). This is an advisory experience guided by an element of solidarity econo- my, in which predominated a use of participatory methodologies. It was based on the perspec-tive of Freire's education as a practice of freedom, in order to contribute to the develop, em-power and the generate employment, income and social inclusion of the groups formed only by women. We conclude that the process of monitoring is characterized as an important tool for the development of assisted, especially the empowerment of the women, since the meth-odologies will influence on the degree of autonomy and independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health education is seen and understood as a social practice that promotes the gradual change of thinking, feeling and acting through the selection and use of participatory teaching methods. This study shows the extension project "Nós na rede: contributions of Odontology to dental education, prevention and health maintenance" which is connected to the Department of Dentistry from State University of Ponta Grossa, state of Paraná, Brazil and approaches health education as a fundamental requirement in dental practice. This paper presents a activity named Intelectual Scavenger Hunt (Gincana Intelectual) which promotes basic information related to oral health to children between eight and twelve years old. The competition consists in three educational games, which aim to provide a good and educational activity. We conclude that this form of play activity exposes itself as a facilitator of information sharing and motivate children in search of healthier behaviors concerning oral health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to observe the use of qualitative research techniques in rural communities. Furthermore, we intend to point out the use of these tools in consonance with the new Política Nacional de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural PNATER (National Politic of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension), which based this new rural extension on a dialogical education. We will presente the result of a Participatory Rapid Appraisal (DRP) in the settlement Vereda I, which has 70 families and is located in the municipality of Padre Bernardo, in the Goiás State. The research formed a team of an extension student, a sociologist, a domestic economist, an agronomist and a veterinarian. We observe that a multidisciplinary team was important because the knowledge of several areas facilitated the dialogue with the settlers. The results showed that the participatory tools this area can contribute to understand the rural reality through dialogue between the technicians and the communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the experience of teachers and students in an extension project of the undergraduate Nursing course entitled "Incentivo e promoção do aleitamento materno: trilhando os passos da Iniciativa Hospital Amigo da Criança" ("Encouraging and promoting breastfeeding: tracing the steps of the Amigo da Criança Hospital Iniciative") linked to the "Programa de Extensão Integração Universidade Federal de Uberlândia/Comunidade" (PEIC - Extension Program Federal University of Uberlandia and Community Integration) carried out in a university hospital. Between December/2013 and June/2014, 1405 birth occurred, predominantly via cesarean (66,8%), in woman aged between 19 and 30 years (62,1%). 401 women were attended individually; and 63 carer/women who had recently given birth were attended in groups. Mother and babies with difficulty in breastfeeding were monitored during hospitalization so they could be guided, assisted and encouraged on what concerns breastfeeding. Furthermore, 22 nursing professionals attended the training, which was a dialogued lecture. The extension project showed that the daily visit to the binomials (mother/child), breastfeeding's assessment and guidance to mothers provided them security to breastfeed their children. It contributed to increase the knowledge of the postpartum women/carer and professionals about the benefits of breastfeeding and the clinical management of it. It also promoted the experiencing and learning of the students in professional reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic Leagues are student organizations that promote scientific, cultural, social and learning activities for their members. Spreading and updating Trauma-related knowledge, with theoretical and practical training regarding the most common medical emergencies, are measures of great impact on the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the assistance provided to victims – and this is the role played by Trauma Leagues. The Trauma, Reanimation and Emergency League of the Fluminense Federal University (LiTREUFF) began its activities in 2008, which have been acted in 3 fields: Prevention and Community Service, Pre-Hospital, and In-Hospital. With 6 years of teaching experience, LiTRE has organized courses and research activities and assistance, 360 theoretical classes and 90 hands-on sessions to its connections, as well as 45 papers presented in conferences. LiTRE's actions alongside Medical Sciences and Nursing students of the Fluminense Federal University enables a distinct technical and humanistic training which, together with medical professionals and society, promotes an improvement in the quality of assistance provided to victims of trauma and medical emergencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]