A sala de aula extramuros: o impacto da curricularização da extensão na graduação de Jornalismo

This study investigates the impacts of including extension credits in undergraduate courses on the training of journalists. It describes the work carried out by PUC-Rio Journalism and Citizenship students at the Fala Roça newspaper, in Rocinha, a favela in southern Rio de Janeiro. The theoretical research is supported by the concepts of the “community that comes” (Agamben, 1993) and the “external agent”, by the Canadian philosopher Kenneth Schmitz, as Raquel Paiva described in her work Espírito Comum: comunidade, mídia e globalismo (2003), which addresses relationships established by the partnership and the development of “responsibility” proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) in the act of producing citizen journalism. This research shows that university extension enables the journalism discipline to train journalists who have “responsibility” and can effectively be social agents by transforming the society in which they live.