Popular Extension: a transformer proposal for higher education

Abstract

Extension is an important space for dialogue, exchange of knowledge, integration and construction of diverse possibilities between the university and society. It is a fundamental dimension of the university institution through which it can learn from popular knowledge and also offer meaningful contributions to the multiple issues of the modern world. This article aims to make a bibliographical review about university extension and its popular perspective. It also aims to present challenges for the consolidation of the popular extension at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), based on the valorization of the knowledge of the population, seeking the cultural and social development of the regional community.