Critical extension: an option to decolonize the university?

Abstract

In this research, the theoretical and methodological perspective of the critical extension is developed, around which a profound conception of the construction of knowledge lies. On the basis of critical extension, it is possible to propose different alternatives to modern-Eurocentric thinking, since extension is understood as a construction made from the border (Tommasino y Cano, 2016: 21), or in Dussel's terms from the exterior (Dussel, 1977, 1998). This approach has already been developed by Erreguera, Nieto and Tommassino (2020) to understand the bases of critical extension, its emergence and development. Starting from the proposal of these authors, the contributions of the decolonial perspective to the critical extension will be deepened and vice versa understanding that the extension is a way of decolonization of academic practices and the production of knowledge within universities.