Teaching and University extension, its educational role and valorisation of local identities

Abstract

The article investigates the educational role and potential for recovery of local cultural identities of teaching and extension actions promoted in the journalism course at the Federal University of Tocantins. We take some experiences developed in the course, as extension projects and activities linked to disciplines. We use as methods content analysis and the participant observation. The experiences point to the role of education in journalism in two dimensions: a socio-cultural, which inserts the social context of place and can promote more holistic experience and committed to the reality of the student in his training as journalist; and a didactic, effective in multiple learning strategies that teaching and extension activities cited provide. Notes that such experiences are evidence of the search for revitalization of the social function of journalism, demonstrating the closeness of this area with the University extension and indicate the extension as a space for feedback to the society.