(Re)imagining outreach in the context of a pandemic: emerging trends and emergencies
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pandemic, universities, university extension programSynopsis
Much has been written about the ways in which the global COVID-19 pandemic has affected our family, work, and leisure lives. Reflections of all kinds and on all scales—global, national, and local—flood media outlets, social media, and even scientific publications. In this context, it is worthwhile to join in articulating how this event has permeated and continues to permeate our outreach practices and the various strategies employed to ensure their implementation, in a context marked—among other issues—by uncertainty, while taking methodological precautions that stem from the recognition that, although we are currently speaking of a “post-pandemic” era, it would be premature to attempt to prescribe possible solutions for how to formalize our practices in the field anytime soon.
In this sense, this publication aims to foster reflection on the extension experience, as a contrarian perspective capable of identifying pre-pandemic working modalities alongside the articulation of unthinkable ways to continue working, in a context of immediacy that challenged us when it came to devising approaches, formats, and spaces. At the crossroads of reflection and writing, it is well worth recalling the words of Isabelle Stengers (2005), who proposes slowing down the pace of reasoning to make room for other perspectives emerging from the “shadows”—perspectives capable of identifying alternative epistemologies and meanings not always brought into play.
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FOREWORD
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INTRODUCTION
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MANAGING EXTENSION PROGRAMS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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Managing Expansion During a Pandemic: Challenges and Adaptations
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A Look at Extension Programs at UNC During the Pandemic. Interview with the University’s Extension Secretaries
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Regional Contexts: Challenges in Managing Extension Programs at Universities in Uruguay and Brazil
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EXPERIENCES WITH INTEGRATING EXTENSION PROGRAMS INTO THE CURRICULUM DURING THE PANDEMIC
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“Knowledge in Motion”: Experiences of curricular spaces and social actors within the framework of a socio-community practice
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“We Are Here: Perspectives, Stories, and Memories from Childhood.” Notebooks and journals as poetic and visual spaces for expressing, imagining, and engaging with the world
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Extending reach in unprecedented times: “recalculating” the approaches of a socio-community-based educational practice
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Getting Involved as a Form of Outreach: Initiatives Launched by and in Collaboration with the Argüello Organizations Committee in the Context of the Pandemic
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EXTENSION PROJECTS AND THE PANDEMIC
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“Virtual participation is very costly.” Encounters and transformations in the avatars of an outreach project
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Native plants, cultural diversity, and virtual classrooms: an anthropological outreach experience 2.0
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Philosophizing and Broadcasting with Children: Stories from the Pandemic
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