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Please, share exhaustive information about service-learning good practices in higher education. It is mainly composing of qualitative data in order to share common quality criteria and systematized contents.
Service-Learning in Higher Education
Service-learning (sometimes referred to as community based or community engaged learning) is an innovative pedagogical approach that integrates meaningful community service or engagement into the curriculum and offers students’ academic credit for the learning that derives from active engagement within the community and work on a real world problem. Reflection and experiential learning strategies underpin the learning process and the service is linked to the academic discipline.
It brings together students, academics and the community whereby all become teaching resources, problem solvers and partners. In addition to enhancing academic and real world learning, the overall purpose of is to instil in students a sense of civic engagement and responsibility and work towards positive social change within society.
A good service-learning practice is an experience that meets the main characteristics of this methodology:
Integrates meaningful service and meets real needs
The service is linked to the academic curriculum
Reflection is part of the learning process
Community organizations are valued as partners
Students have a strong voice
Who we are
University Service-Learning Association
We are a Spanish association created in 2017 with the purpose of strengthening the collaboration and exchange of experiences of Service-Learning, disseminate educational and social projects based on this methodology, promote research and support the processes of institutionalization of the Service-Learning in the Spanish universities.
Core Team
Pilar Aramburuzabala
Director of the EOSLHE
Autonomous University of Madrid
Bio
She has been working for the past 20 years on Service-Learning with university students. She is the Coordinator of the Service-Learning Program in the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of the UAM. President of the Association of University Service-Learning and promoter of the European Network of Learning-Service in Higher Education. She is an advisor to the Municipal Office of Service-Learning of the Madrid City Council.
Carlos Ballesteros
Deputy Director of the EOSLHE
Pontifical University of Comillas
Bio
He started teaching at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Pontifical University of Comillas in 1992, where he has taught both undergraduate and postgraduate (Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Entrepreneurship for International Development) among other courses. Currently he is the Chair of the Social Business Consulting Unit, a Service-Learning initiative within the business field where students, as a mandatory capstone course, try to solve management related challenges of social entities and organizations He has also lectured in China, Kenya, Colombia and Chile, among other countries. He is also a voluntary teacher at Jesuit worldwide Education: Higher Education in the Margins. He is Vice-President of the Spanish Association of University Service-Learning.
Marta Alonso
Coordinator of the EOSLHE
S-L (U) Association
Bio
As a coordinator, I am responsible for the implementation of the European Observatory to enhance and disseminate the knowledge of Service-Learning in Higher Education. Master in Management of Non-Profit Entities and BA (Hons) Design and Media Management. Over 15 years of experience working on Social Innovation Projects and Cooperation for Development Projects.
Ana Cayuela
Researcher of the EOSLHE
S-L (U) Association
Bio
She has been working for the past years on social studies. Ph.D. in Public Health. Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. Her research has focused on the study of the mutual influence of health and social conditions, specifically the inequalities in the working population and the migrant populations in different countries. Her expertise is on observational studies; cross-sectional studies, prospective cohort studies, and case-control studies. Her skill set includes multidisciplinary questionnaire design, sample design, field work, data management, database design, and statistical modelling.
