A CONSOLIDAÇÃO DA IDENTIDADE DA UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA PARA A TERCEIRA IDADE NA COMUNIDADE DE PONTA GROSSA: DE PROJETO EXTENSIONISTA À OBRIGAÇÃO LEGAL

Resumen

In the prelude of three decades of existence, the Open University of the Third Age of the State University of Ponta Grossa (UATI / UEPG), built a real support structure for the education of the elderly community of Ponta Grossa and established itself as a reference for the realization of the values in the face of old age. Based on a functionalist epistemological approach, through descriptive and documentary research, data were collected that were able to select a set of characteristics that distinguish it and through which it is possible to individualize it, how its students are divided according to their age, sex , occupation, education and marital status and based on a bibliographic research, we will report the historical situation that structured the formation of open universities of the third age and the importance for the organizational disposition in the creation of the first structure of its kind in the State of Paraná.