Creative Education, 2016, 7, 1500-1507 Published Online July 2016 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2016.710155 How to cite this paper: de Castro, R. M., da Silva, V. P., Santana, M. S. R., & da Silva, J. R. M. (2016). The Teaching, the Re- search and the University Extension and Educational Demands: Historical Challenges for Initial and Continued Teacher Formation. Creative Education, 7, 1500-1507. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2016.710155 The Teaching, the Research and the University Extension and Educational Demands: Historical Challenges for Initial and Continued Teacher Formation Rosane Michelli de Castro 1 , Vandeí Pinto da Silva 1 , Maria Silvia Rosa Santana 2 , Joice Ribeiro Machado da Silva 3 1 Department of Didactics and Program of Postgraduate on Education, Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences, University Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho”—UNESP/Marília, São Paulo, Brazil 2 Pedagogy and Social Sciences Courses and Program of Postgraduate on Education, State University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Paranaíba, Brazil 3 School of the Basic Education, Federal University of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil Received 31 May 2016; accepted 11 July 2016; published 14 July 2016 Copyright © 2016 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract This article has a main goal to present results of the reflection on some aspects of historical chal- lenges for initial and continuing teacher formation in Brazil. Our reflections have been prepared and envisaged in our defenses in processes that must happen under solid offered foundations, centrally, in direct relation to university contexts signed on the tripod teaching, research and ex- tension. However, we consider that the legal aspects that have guided the formation process of teachers in Brazil have favored both the theoretical emptying of these processes, as certain strangeness, by teachers of their own teaching. We believe in the end that the formation process of teachers in Brazil, in a direct relationship with the teaching, research and university extension, should provide training and work conditions so that teachers can take as posture and as concep- tion of the world the search for radical (root) apprehension of the educational phenomenon in its essence, beyond what it is immediately noticeable, in an unveiling effort of the laws that produced such phenomenon. Keywords Education, Teacher, Teaching, Research, Extension