The response of the UNAH in the context of the pandemic: political and methodological approaches from critical extension

Abstract

This article intends to describe and critically analyze the response of the National Autonomous University of Honduras UNAH, from the three substantive functions: teaching, research and outreach to
the pandemic in the Honduran context, in a period from March to November 2020. The decisions and agreements issued by the Higher Education Council (CES) and UNAH determined to suspend face-toface
activities and continue with academic teaching activities that by their nature could be adapted in virtual environment. The rest of the activities, including the administrative management of the budgets,
were put on hold. This posed a political challenge to sustain the commitments made with external actors without budgetary support for the actions already planned. Among the methodological challenges, they
highlighted giving continuity to the registration of linkage projects, the follow-up of non-formal education activities already started, the follow-up to the requests of different actors with whom collaboration links had already been established, training processes and training on the task of linking, the strengthening of links with academic extension networks in the Latin American region.