Good Practices of Extension and social bonding: Theoretical confluences between Extension, service-learning and social responsibility

Abstract

Good practices of Extension and social linkage: Theoretical confluence between extension,  learning -service and social responsibility, is related to university extension and its articulation with the institutional, state and company social sectors and has as objectives: to assess the theoretical confluences between social extension and the achievement of useful learning for society, as part of the social responsibility of the university and visualize how good practices of extension and social linkage converge with the  social responsibility of the university in the dissemination and conservation of culture.
The mission of universities is to prepare the citizens of a country to meet the demands that society needs through the conservation,  development and promotion of culture, science and social progress. In this sense, the extension work, service-learning and university social responsibility constitute processes that have points of contact and are distinguished from each other based on the fulfillment of said mission, encompassing various scenarios and approaches  when expressing the links of the university with society and the state. This paper addresses, fundamentally, from pedagogical theories, some theoretical reflections on University Extension processes, followed by a tour of servicelearning  and university social responsibility, through the exemplification of extensionist practices of the  Faculty Multidisciplinary Regional of Chontales of the UNAN Managua. The university extension and social link, carried out from the FAREM Chontales, contributes to the development of the country, through actions that pay for responses to the SDGs, PNDH, Agenda 2030 and strategic lines of action of the UNAN-Managua. The methodology of the work is close to socio-cultural animation since all the experiences developed in recent years are based on social intervention that tries to modify the realities of groups of people, through extensionist practices and actions. In this sense, it is important to highlight that, through sociocultural animation processes, specific actions are developed as elements of extension and  linkage, roughly, to visualize in the communities, the actions that modify their environment, for example, changes of behavior, regarding family and social coexistence, awareness of the need to care for the environment and overcoming risk behaviors.