Narrating the extension experience: the voices of the Obispo Salguero School-shelter

Abstract

The following audiovisual work entitled: Narrating the extension experience: the voices of the Obispo Salguero School-Hostel, is part of an extension project called Raíces. Narratives and stories of the Obispo Salguero Shelter School (Pampa de Olaen, Córdoba). This project began in the middle of the year 2022 and involved an articulated work with the educational community of the Obispo Salguero school, located in a rural area 80 km away from our University. After a series of visits in which an exchange of knowledge was promoted, an extensionist demand was jointly built with the main objective of knowing, recording and understanding the different narratives about the daily life and history of the school from the voice of its different actors and in their own terms.
This audiovisual article represents a first approach to the act of narrating the experience (Rockwell, 2009). From there we intend to recover and share the daily life of this educational community in its articulation with the extension project. From the kitchen, to the shadow theater, through walks in the school and playfulness as a central element of the link with children, we intend to propose an extension work that contemplates a look at human rights, with the challenge of promoting access to culture as consumption and production, of and from the children's own educational experiences. In this way, we bet on a way of narrating that distances itself from adult-centric perspectives, in which they are the builders of their own stories; and we also bet on producing a narration of that daily life in which plots and processes are woven in that continuous and always unfinished making of school (Rockwell, 2007).