2014-07-292012-05-182012-03-27DINIZ, Flávio Pereira. The academic extension as a tool for public policy. 2012. 142 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Humanas) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2012.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1614This work presents the results of an investigation, which had as its objective understand the building and development process of an academic extension conception defined and required as a potential instrument for social public policies. The information sources defined for the research were textual materials produced within the Brazilian Public Universities Extension Pro-Rectors Forum (EXPROFOR); documents from the Academic Extension Programme of Education Ministry (PROEXT/EM); texts from Extension Projects Methodology Seminar (EPMSEM) and reports of experiences presented on the Academic Extension Brazilian Congress (AEBC). The theoretical background comes from elements of Bakhtin s enunciation theory, highlighting this author s ideology and dialogism concepts. The results of the research indicate the existence of an imbrication between the guidelines elaborated by EXPROFOR and the financial policy of PROEXT/EM which, associated to the contributions in the methodological field and reports of extension experiences, elucidate the main characteristics of academic extension as an instrument of public policy.application/pdfAcesso AbertoExtensão universitáriaPolítica pública socialPolítica de financiamentoMetodologia participativaAcademic extensionSocial public policyFinancial policyParticipatory methodologyExt universit-política pública social; Ext universit-polític-financiamentoCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIADissertação