Metodología dialógica e interdisciplina en la extensión universitaria. Reflexiones acerca de una experiencia

This work is the result of our reflections on dialogical methodology and  the formation of interdisciplinary teams in research-action processes. They arise from an experience in university outreach carried out by Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, jointly with the Provincial Commission for Memory (CPM) and the State Employees’ Association (ATE), Province of Buenos Aires. The object of the project was access to, and appropriation and collective resignification of, documents from the  Archive of the ex-Police Intelligence Directorate of the Province of  Buenos Aires (DIPBA), held in custody by the CPM. In other words an  encounter between these documents – which contain a part of  Argentina’s history marked by persecution and repression, and also by  resistance – and their protagonists. The work seeks to identify the  problem nodes and the potential of the experience, and to reconstruct the methodological challenge created by the disposition to dialogue and  the formation of a relation of us-others. In this process we analyze the  presence of a dialogical perspective in the conceptualization of the  notion of outreach; in the methodology chosen for the participative research-action and its tensions in the field; in the application of interdisciplinary thought and action to construct an other outreacher; and in the decision based on the needs tabled by workers to specifically  incorporate inter-generation and inter-gender dialogue. This position allowed us a dialogue between the subjects who participated in the  outreach experience and the collective creation of the so-called «re»-processes (Vasilachis, 2007): redefinition of identity, redefinition of  discourse under the eyes of the others (DIPBA), and redefinition of the  collective memory of workers from a collective reconstruction of history.  Finally, we obstacles and facilitating elements which we found  throughout the enabling our contribution to illuminate certain aspects.  These will carrying out further successful university outreach experiences.