Projetos educacionais do Centro de Educação e Saúde: compromisso social com a comunidade local.

Abstract

Any country that intends to have a higher social development, must look for, among other things, a system of superior education, consolidated and strong. The institutions of superior teaching, have to keep their efforts in order to meet the society's needs, and also, contribute to the cultural and intellectual production ofthe humanity, searching for solutions for the current issues. On this contcxt, the federal university of Campina Grande, campus of Cuité/PB, founded a center of education and health, with two main goals. Thc first one is to improve basic education and lhe second one, is graduating more professionals in the health field, to work in our region, taking local problems and needs into account. Following this reasoning, the actual study, through bibliographic researches, investigated what are the growing deficicncies and thc potentialitics in the town of Cuité, and its neighbor towns as well. Then, it was verified, in which extent, the research projects and the extention of the program called Policen are socially comrnitted to those matters, somehow, it is trying to help and also develop towns and t teir neighbor's economy, education, health system, environment, and so on. It was chosen qualitative and quantitative methods, and in this fashion, it was carried out some intcrviews, that weren't well-structured but, they only meant to clarify some points on the approach and present some statistics about the classification of 155 projects that were analyzcd, according to the degrcc of social and local applicability. It was also taken into consideration, the searching projects and their local applicability or not, and the extension projects, according to their focusses (professional training or public scrvice). By chance, it was discussed about their programs and activities that have some direct relation to the society and to the CES goals, too. A little bit ofthis university history, is inside o f this text, as well as the functions of those institutions and the education, as a transformative practice. This educational conception, it is found at Paulo Freire's theory, and also in official documents, such as the National Curricular Parameters (PCNs) and the Law of Guidelines and Bases for National Education (LDBEN), for example, bcing in consonance with the methodology of the problematization highJighted in this research. So, this monographic work, seeks to contribute to a reflcction on educational practices ofthe CES, transforming or reaffirming them.