THE UNIVERSITY SOCIAL OUTREACH AS AN ACTION OF ENDOWMENT AND HOSPITALITY

Abstract

This reflection paper is framed within the research Project called “Systematization of the experience of assisting the Community of San Sebastian from Betania between the years 2013-2018”, particularly in the work done with children of the soccer and dance class. The text seeks for the generation of reflections regarding one of the University’s main functions: the social outreach, which is understood not only within the frame of the University Social Responsibility as an institutionalized subject, but also within the projection of this idea. All this, in order to assume this social outreach, as an action of endowment and hospitality with others, where it achieves the exercise of replicating the knowledge acquired at the University, and the understanding of the knowledge coming from the assessed communities in order to generate spaces for open dialogue and combined construction.