Popular and Biocentric Extension experiences: university training people in Ceará and Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This article is a summary of works and research being developed in Núcleo de Psicologia Comunitária– NUCOM (Community Psychology project - NUCOM) of the Federal University of Ceará and the Universityof Santa Cruz do Sul. It provides references that combine their methodologies. It discusses the questfor autonomy through community mobilization and biocentric education and that brings the debate of lifeas the center of the universe. It develops the relationship between extension and wisdom from studies inCommunitarian Psychology and about the Amerindian people, specifically the Guarani, problematizing themeaning of knowledge itself and its relation with extension, research and teaching in university studies. Forthe Guarani people learning is developed as a desire to know, which includes corporality, intuition, spiritualityand thinking in a collective organization purpose. Their view about knowledge is part of our culture andit is often left out because it does not represent the dominant economic and European knowledge, but itwith our practice of university education. The extension provides a full and transdisciplinary training, andis necessary as a human and professional education.