Experience report regarding the Extension Project: “Photographic representation as a reflection of the social imaginary of urban centers.”

Abstract

The purpose of Extension Projects is to promote citizenship, realizing that teaching, research and extension are inseparable activities. Together they produce collaborative actions for the student's citizen and professional development and bring about transformations of reality in the teachinglearning process. Active methodologies have been used to make the student a multicultural agent for collective causes in the environment in which he lives. Among the active methodologies, photography has emerged as an aid to the sciences in their effort to better apprehend reality. The act of photographing and the experience with the photographic image can be differentiated, as it calls for the look, requests that the eyes remain on it, to witness, to be a trace of reality. The objective of this study was to report the students' experience regarding the Extension Project: "The photographic representation as a reflection of the social imaginary of urban centers. " The experience of the project was collected through a recorded structured interview. The reports and their analyzes were transcribed in the light of previous literature. There was a change in the students' view regarding the social imaginary of urban centers.