Social impact of the Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas de Cuba as an expression of the university extension

The Cuban model of university outreach, existing since 2004, entails a management model of the university community outreach, which encompasses two dimensions in the field of university sociocultural work. It highlights the need to include participative, dialogic, creative and contextualized aspects...

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Main Authors: García González, Ernesto, Falcón Pi, Graciela Blanca
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria 2018
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ext/article/view/22686
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Summary:The Cuban model of university outreach, existing since 2004, entails a management model of the university community outreach, which encompasses two dimensions in the field of university sociocultural work. It highlights the need to include participative, dialogic, creative and contextualized aspects and poses the scientific challenge of systematizing the study of university outreach by employing new concepts and innovative actions, which aim at the transformation of the university as an institution that contributes to sustainable social development. This work is the result of the authors' study on the social impact of the University of Computer Sciences in Cuba as an expression of university outreach. It aims to contribute to the study of the contradiction between the traditional management of the outreach process in the current Cuban higher education system and the need to systematize its implementation with a transformative outlook that cuts through the institutional walls and is able to foster social changes springing from the integration of university processes.