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La pedagogía del aprendizaje-servicio en la universidad. Hoja de ruta para el profesorado [Service-learning at university. Roadmap for teacher-training institutions] Mayor Paredes, D., Solís Galán, M.G., and Granero Andújar, A. (comp.) (2024)
Download link [in Spanish]: https://octaedro.com/libro/la-pedagogia-del-aprendizaje-servicio-en-la-universidad/
It results from the collective production of faculty and researchers from different Spanish universities. This recently published book offers a detailed guide for service-learning implementation at universities. It provides a broad conceptual framework that interconnects the central dimensions of service-learning in light of the experiences and reflections of professors who have participated in project management. Based on the recommendations of the UNESCO report Reimagining Our Futures Together: A New Social Contract for Education (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381560), it advocates for the development in universities of cooperative, collaborative and solidarity-based pedagogies for more inclusive, equitable and environmentally friendly societies.
The book has three purposes that are systematically recovered in each of the compiled works: to offer a conceptual map with the core dimensions that combine the service-learning framework, to provide a guide to implement projects and to disseminate the reflections of professors who have approached this pedagogy and educational practice under unique conditions and circumstances.
The classic SSL topics are addressed in nine chapters dealing with the following: the key characteristics that have historically shaped SL practices, the basic regulatory framework and the main institutional guidelines that support it in the university contexts of the European area, the methodological foundations, the assessment of needs, the types of service that faculty and students can implement in SL experiences, the learning achieved, the establishment of links between the university and its community within the framework of horizontal relations, inclusion and social justice, as well as the political and ethical aspects of educational actions, the types of participation and the evaluation of the projects.
The end of this collective work describes some of the epistemological and ontological foundations of the main research models approaching service-learning: the positivist or quantitative aspect and the interpretative or qualitative aspect. The influence of this pedagogical practice on the participants in its implementation —students, faculty and community partners— is analyzed, and the scope and challenges that remain are discussed.
La pedagogía del aprendizaje-servicio en la universidad. Hoja de ruta para el profesorado [Service-learning at university. Roadmap for teacher-training institutions], The pedagogy of service-learning at the university. Hoja de ruta para el profesorado, published by Octaedro Ediciones and freely distributed, is a valuable, holistic and practical contribution to introduce professors interested in taking the leap and exploring other ways of teaching at the university. It encourages meaningful learning, with a view of the environment and a vocation for transforming social reality.
We remind you that CLAYSS offers free publications and resources to download or read online: https://clayss.org/recursos.
Highlights!
Guía para desarrollar proyectos de aprendizaje-servicio solidario. Edición 20° aniversario CLAYSS, [Handbook to develop service-learning projects – CLAYSS 20th anniversary edition], revisited by its author, María Nieves Tapia. https://clayss.org/sites/default/files/material/Manual_20CLAYSS.pdf
Uniservitate collection
Mainly focused on Catholic Higher Education, but open to specialists in service-learning and the general public interested in education and social change. The collection is available on the Uniservitate website:
In Spanish https://www.uniservitate.org/es/publicaciones/
In English https://www.uniservitate.org/publications/
Uniservitate repository
Theoretical and practical resources on service-learning and its spiritual dimension in higher education, from a multicultural perspective. Here you have free access to download different resources – texts, images, and videos: https://repository.uniservitate.org/es/
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IV Global Symposium Uniservitate
Videos and material of the Global Symposium celebrated in Manila, Philippines, in November 2023:
https://www.uniservitate.org/es/simposio-global-uniservitate/iv-simposio-global-uniservitate/
Video summary of the Uniservitate Global Symposium:
English: https://youtu.be/51mrSQoTka0?si=SaVewbY5eGQg-bC8
In Spanish: https://youtu.be/oGYRdQ2Pdig
26th International Service-Learning Conference
Now you may access or download all speakers’ presentations of the latest edition held at Universidad Católica de Buenos Aires (UCA), Buenos Aires, on 24th and 25th August 2023:
https://www.clayss.org/materiales-26-seminario/
The videos of the lectures and panels are also available on our YouTube channels to remember and get inspired, watch for the first time or share; you are welcome to subscribe and click on the little bell to keep updated on our releases and news:
In Spanish: @clayssdigital: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHLq86FFE84spNl_QN9owIzSYz5CXXU6&si=7RWe8EEy34Pi1_-G
In English @uniservitate: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJgzp92T-klwqUp7bInVIU1QwsxrJR8F&si=rEqXA17D7Y4wPzdF