Resumen

ROSELL PUCHE, Lermit. Aportes de la Educación Superior para el Desarrollo Sostenible: La extensión universitaria y la pertinencia del conocimiento. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2007, vol.45, n.3, pp.346-353. ISSN 0001-6365.

Abstract In this complex world the actual model for development, based on fundamentally the economics benefit, its showing a lot of problems about its capabilities to give answer to a great majority of needed human beings. Sustainable development shows a new point of view, for the development of ours regions, sustained in the postmodern proposal. The Venezuelan higher education, through an adequate extension politic, could help to form the new citizens and leadership, in close contact with those needs, so it can impulse the social development of our country, with respect for the social development of future generations

Palabras clave : Posmodernismo; Desarrollo Sostenible; Extensión Universitaria; Pertinencia.