{"title":"The Australian Catholic University and DePaul University (Chicago) service-learning partnership","authors":"M. Pink, H. Rosing, S. Jones","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.14","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report on the service-learning partnership between Australian Catholic University and DePaul University (Chicago) and how this partnership has enriched the scholarship of service-learning for both institutions. Using a case study methodology, we explore how two large Catholic Higher Education Institutions (CHEIs) with similar, yet distinct missions have partnered to learn about each other’s approaches and contexts. Since 2018, the SteansCenter for Community-Based Service-learning and Community Service Studies (DePaul) and ACU Engagement, the central agency responsible for supporting the extensive service-learning program at ACU, have met to discuss their programs and explore opportunities for collaboration. These discussions have led to new understandings and translations in the pedagogical terminology across Australian and US contexts and the identification of how mission coherence can inform partnerships between CHEIs. The partnership has also led to ongoing collaborations that have furthered the service-learning mission and institutionalisation of both universities. The paper concludes by reflecting upon the value of partnerships between CHEIs across national boundaries and the value of mutually exploring mission, principles, and practice as the field seeks further institutionalisation of service-learning. That is, service-learning for the mutual benefit and transformation of the community and university.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117072135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutionalizing service-learning as a social work pedagogy: experiences, challenges and contributions to acquisition of competencies","authors":"Melody Ambagan","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.5","url":null,"abstract":"Social Work Education (SWE) in the Philippines is a competency-based academic discipline that focuses on the development of student practice behaviors. The goal of SWE is to demonstrate the integration and application of the competencies in practice with various client systems. This is where the SWE of Southern Christian College (SCC) saw the need to adopt service-learning (SL) as a pedagogy that would aid, assess, and enhance students’ readiness for professional practice. Since it is a combination of academic instruction and community service to address identified community needs, SL is viewed to be an effective vehicle to ensure that students apply what they learn from their classes to address real-world problems in communities. This paper will present the process of how SL had been introduced as an academic framework in one of the social work courses in SCC in 2010 and will particularly highlight the experiences, challenges, gains and learning insights. Experiences of students and faculty revolved around their engagements, challenges encountered, personal and professional learning, and social and psychological gains. Based on the data gathered, an SL framework was developed to reflect the practice of SL in the SCC-SWE. In conclusion, SL as a pedagogy in social work education has contributed to the acquisition and development of basic competencies in terms of knowledge, values and attitudes and skills. The gains which service-learners identified superseded the challenges which they encountered along the various phases.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121294764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aprendizaje-servicio en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana seccional Bogotá, una experiencia de institucionalización en curso","authors":"A. Barbosa, D. García","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.7","url":null,"abstract":"En la misión y el proyecto educativo de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana se declara la construcción de una sociedad más justa, sostenible, incluyente y respetuosa de la dignidad humana a través de la formación integral y la producción de conocimiento pertinente. Aunque a lo largo de la historia de la Universidad han existido diferentes experiencias educativas cercanas al aprendizaje-servicio, este no se ha institucionalizado formalmente. En el año 2019 se empezó a considerar esta posibilidad y posteriormente, en el 2020, el Rector suscribió el acuerdo de colaboración interinstitucional con UNISERVITATE y le encargó el liderazgo y gestión del proyecto a la Oficina para el Fomento de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria. Este artículo tiene por objetivo sistematizar la experiencia para construir una ruta de institucionalización del aprendizaje-servicio. A través de entrevistas semi-estructuradas, grupos focales, análisis documental y la técnica de la sistematización, se recogió la información con relación a los sentidos y prácticas asociados al proceso de institucionalización. Ello permitió hacer una triangulación para extraer las necesidades, potencialidades y retos que implica institucionalizar el aprendizaje-servicio en la universidad. Se plantea la necesidad de que el aprendizaje servicio tenga un respaldo institucional claro y normalizado.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127511461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on service-learning in european higher education","authors":"A. Ribeiro, Pilar Aramburuzabala, Berta Paz","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.2","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last two decades, there has been a growing emphasis on the transformation of higher education within Europe. The promotion of active and democratic citizenship through formal higher education is a primary concern. Service-learning (SL) has proven to be a powerful didactic methodology for achieving these ideals. The objective of this paper is to highlight some reflections that permeate SL european experiences, published in the European Observatory of Service-Learning in Higher Education, between January 2020 and September 2021. The counting and percentages of the valued attitudes of SL experiences were collected to explore the guiding philosophy, historical roots, purposes, and underpinning features of SL, contextual factors affecting the practice of SL in the partner institutions and countries, and future challenges and opportunities. Conclusions focus on SL growth and mainstreaming; SL as a core strategic pillar for developing deeper community-higher education partnerships and for strengthening civic engagement across higher education; the need to develop future research to explore these connections and the potential that SL can play in terms of increased civic, work-life and theoretical understandings and skills.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133178257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Dalagan, A. Garciano, A. Urduja, G. Adarlo, M. Obedencio, L. Abitad, L. Arcena, A. Sagaral, D. Abo-abo, M.G. Besenio, R. Ramos, F. Nubla, D.J. Rabajante, R. Austero, M. Emmanuel
{"title":"Extent of implementation of service-learning in five Jesuit Universities in the Philippines","authors":"J. Dalagan, A. Garciano, A. Urduja, G. Adarlo, M. Obedencio, L. Abitad, L. Arcena, A. Sagaral, D. Abo-abo, M.G. Besenio, R. Ramos, F. Nubla, D.J. Rabajante, R. Austero, M. Emmanuel","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.8","url":null,"abstract":"Service-learning is a form of experiential education in which students engage in activities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning and development. Philippine Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are making attempts to integrate service-learning in their educational systems. In this current qualitative study, the mechanism of service learning in 5 Jesuit higher education institutions located in different regions in the Philippines was described. Furco’s Self-Assessment Rubric for institutionalization of service learning as a framework was used as the evaluation tool. Results revealed that even if the institutions studied were all Jesuit universities, each one exhibited unique experiences and different levels of implementation of service learning. They also vary in the mechanism or approach of implementation. What was evident among the five Jesuit higher education institutions is their shared commitment towards service and social justice as part of their mission and identity. The difference in the level of implementation among the five HEIs depends on the longevity of the service learning in the institution, the number of programs that utilize service learning as a pedagogy, sustained commitment and persistence of the administrators, faculty and staff.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130818500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ulrike Brok, C. Leitzmann, M. Schlegler, L. Müller, J. Sonnberger, J. Derkau, T. Sporer
{"title":"Quality criteria and evaluation: a measuring instrument for the German language area","authors":"Ulrike Brok, C. Leitzmann, M. Schlegler, L. Müller, J. Sonnberger, J. Derkau, T. Sporer","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.6","url":null,"abstract":"The University Network on Social Responsibility is a network of more than 40 universities in Germany and Austria established in 2009 that want to realise and expand their social responsibility by systematically promoting the civil society engagement of students, teachers, and other members of higher education, linking this with their educational mission and thus actively influencing society and contributing to the mutual transfer of knowledge. This can be done through the teaching-learning format of service learning (SL). In 2018, a workshop initiated a discussion between representatives of academia and civil society. The focus was the aspect of quality of SL. The group came up with ten different criteria which provide a frame of reference for the different manifestations of SL in the community. Based on these criteria, suitable procedures and instruments were developed to provide SL actors with orientation and suggestions for the implementation and evaluation of SL projects.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132741964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un compromiso para la transformación social: el plan UC para consolidar a A+S en América Latina","authors":"F. Del Valle, R. Fontana, J. Sepúlveda","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.9","url":null,"abstract":"En marzo de 2021, la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) inició su plan de acompañamiento regional en el marco del proyecto Uniservitate en América Latina. Este proyecto global pretende institucionalizar y potenciar la implementación de la metodología de aprendizaje servicio (A+S) en universidades católicas del continente, en coherencia con su misión institucional promoviendo así una educación integral que permita formar ciudadanos socialmente responsables. El objetivo del artículo es mostrar las etapas del plan de acompañamiento de la UC para las universidades Católica de Argentina, Católica de Pernambuco, Pontificia Javeriana de Bogotá y Católica de Ecuador. El plan de acompañamiento para institucionalizar el aprendizaje-servicio en el continente posee un diseño definido con elementos fuertes en la formación, el acompañamiento y la evaluación siendo estos los ejes para una primera etapa de implementación en las universidades acompañadas. El aprendizaje-servicio es una metodología que busca desarrollar una educación integral a través de la formación de la responsabilidad social en el estudiantado y su institucionalización representa una oportunidad para que las universidades profundicen su contribución a una sociedad más justa y equitativa.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"11647 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122787898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisión de la proyección social institucional a partir del impacto formativo en graduados","authors":"F. Giraudo, D. Gargantini","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.11","url":null,"abstract":"Desde una noción de calidad educativa concebida como aquella que asegura la adquisición de conocimientos significativos y el desarrollo de capacidades ciudadanas comprometidas con la transformación de la realidad, las universidades confiadas a la Compañía de Jesús en América Latina han ido generando iniciativas que apuntan a la formación de los estudiantes para el compromiso y la solidaridad. Este artículo tiene como objetivo determinar los factores emergentes vinculados a la cultura institucional que inciden en la formación de sus graduados, y de esta manera, inferir los cambios a introducir en la política de proyección social institucional. La metodología empleada incluyó un enfoque analítico interpretativo, retrospectivo y transversal, desarrollado a través de un diseño metodológico cualitativo a través del análisis documental, entrevistas con referentes institucionales, graduados, y referentes externos (empleadores y representantes de entidades deontológicas). A la luz de los resultados fue posible determinar las revisiones valóricas, procedimentales e instrumentales que la política de proyección social de la universidad debiera encarar, a fin de cumplir en profundidad con la misión que le ha sido encomendada.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125667066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institucionalización del aprendizaje-servicio en una universidad intercongregacional","authors":"L. I. López","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.4","url":null,"abstract":"La Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) se ha caracterizado desde su fundación como una universidad orientada a la mejora de las condiciones de vida de la comunidad, por medio del servicio y la acción social. Se empezó el proceso de implementación del aprendizaje-servicio (ApS) a nivel licenciatura durante el 2012 y actualmente es obligatorio. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las relaciones interdepartamentales durante el proceso de institucionalización del ApS, considerando sus principios fundacionales y visión intercongregacional desde una perspectiva sociológica para la generación de un modelo replicable en contextos educativos de inspiración católica. Se analizan las relaciones de los actores que contribuyeron a la institucionalización interna, desde la teoría de la estructuración de Anthony Giddens mediante el análisis de sus interacciones interdepartamentales. Este análisis permite crear un modelo de operación interna para impulsar el ApS de forma transversal en la institución. Ello permite comprender y generar conocimiento basado en prácticas sociales recurrentes.","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128821493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformative service-learning experience through participatory project management","authors":"Mark Anthony D. Abenir","doi":"10.1344/ridas2021.12.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/ridas2021.12.3","url":null,"abstract":"Studies have shown that for Service-Learning (SL) to be truly valuable and transformative, it must employ participatory project management practices and is ideally conducted in a face-to-face setting. This case study aims to highlight the strategies used to make SL projects long-term and participatory. It also measures the effectiveness of such approach in achieving a valuable and transformative SL experience for students and partner communities. Qualitative results show that students were able to develop desired personal, professional, and civic competencies. On the part of the partner communities, qualitative results reveal that they appreciate the year-long participatory SL engagement with the students that brought about high quality SL projects. Quantitative data, on the other hand, indicate that the paired samples t-test resulted in a moderate practical significant difference in the pre-and post-test scores of students when it came to their personal, professional, and civic mindedness skills. Finally, quantitative results indicate that partner communities reported that SL projects brought them a very favorable impact in terms of skills and competencies, motivation and commitments, personal growth and self-concept, and acquisition of knowledge. ","PeriodicalId":189925,"journal":{"name":"RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127267764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}