The school in play

Abstract

The university extension, it is understood in the Argentine university system as one of the three pillars that comprise it, along with teaching and research. In this framework, extension practices are experiences of social intervention, which test the skills acquired in undergraduate training, skills that are deconstructed and reconstructed from a constant interaction between the various social actors.

The extension project, described in the following article came from some observations focused on community and school integration. In this initial analysis found that leisure practices in children and adolescents in the neighborhood in question, were conditioned by two factors: one social and the other by the lack of availability of space for playing. For this reason we thought relevant to recover the practice of some games from the school, understanding it as a “territory” socially legitimized, but also as a possible place to generate educational policies towards transformation, understanding that as things stood there was a need reappropriation of the game as a right and need.