Premises regarding the management of university extension from the teaching department

Abstract

The university extension and its management at different levels and organizational structures are a topic widely debated today. The article starts from a study of the theoretical and contextual framework of the university extension and its management from the Teaching Department, in the context of the University of Pinar del Río that allow the development of premises for its development. The objective was to determine the main trends of extension management in the Teaching Department. The main materials and methods conceived the use of the dialectic-materialist method as rector, which served as a starting point for the use of others as theorists such as the Historical-Logic, the Documentary Review, the Systematization and the System Approach, as well as a set of empirical methods among which the interview, the survey and the experiential were found. As main results, a series of trends and essential premises are assumed from a systemic, integrative and dynamic perspective that contribute to the improvement of extension management in the teaching department and its essential influence on the professional profile formation.