Two experiences of university extension in Humanities contrasted according to their institutional framework

Abstract

This paper analyzes two university extension projects carried out in the interior of the Province of Mendoza by teachers, graduates and students of different teacher training careers from the Philosophy and Literature College sponsored by the National University of Cuyo. In both cases, they were proposals for community philosophical practices. We start from the contextualization of these experiences in the general framework of the university extension programs that this house of studies manages and the approaches and models from which it is possible to think about this type of practices and then proceed to the description of the projects taken as analysis cases. As it is concluded in the light of this contextualization, elaborated from a historical and normative perspective, the contradictions in the ways of understanding the university extension crystallized within the institutions can manifest themselves and entail consequences in the particular projects channeled through them.