service-learning in spain
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A presentation about the deveopment of Service-Learning in Spain.TRANSCRIPT
Service-Learning in
Spain
The 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference
San José, California, March 24-27, 2010
Roser Batlle
Outline
1. What is the Spanish concept of S-L?
2. Why is S-L needed in Spain?
3. Which opportunities do we have?
4. Which difficulties do we face?
5. How is S-L developing in Spain?
6. Some Spanish S-L projects
7. Our conclusions
1. What is the Spanish concept of S-L?
An educational methodology which promotes social commitment in children and young people linked to gaining knowledge, learning skills, attitudes, and valuesLearn by doing a service for the community
A definition
1. What is the Spanish concept of S-L?
1. Several possibilities: A S-L project can be large or small, long durational or brief.
2. Learning may be related or not to academic content.
3. Allow for imperfection: Basic requirements are not the same as quality criteria.
4. The network between schools and CBO at local level is one of the most important keys to success.
Some approaches
2. Why is S-L needed in Spain?
School failure
Lack of citizenshipand values
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Risk of social fracture
Education forcitizenship
Contribution to successat school
Greater social cohesion
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Service-Learning
2. Why is S-L needed in Spain?
3. Which opportunities do we have?
1. There is now greater social sensibility towards educational challenges.
2. There is a new subject in compulsory education called Citizenship, which favors S-L Projects.
3. Which opportunities do we have?
3. We already have a lot of Primary schools and High schools open to the community and developing many social actions.
4. We already have a lot of CBO with educational projects.
5. We already have many City Councils with educational policies addressed towards drop out and social cohesion.
4. Which difficulties do we face?
1. Low experience in networking between schools and CBO.
2. Low experience in projects with strong links between Learning and Service.
4. Which difficulties do we face?
3. Many teachers are fatigued and dispirited because of consecutive educational reforms.
4. Schedules, timetables and rules are still too inflexible in Primary and Secondary schools, and this is often a difficulty for developing S-L projects.
5. How is S-L developing in Spain?
The diffusion of Service-Learning in Spain is supporting by Ashoka Innovators for the Public
GaliciaAsturias
Cantabria
Extremadura
Andalucía
Castilla León
Castilla La Mancha
Madrid
AragónCataluña
Valencia Baleares
Murcia
Canarias
Navarra
País Vasco
La Rioja
Regions without a S-L initiative
Regions with a S-L initiative in process
Regions with a S-L initiative:
5. How is S-L developing in Spain?Development
Criteria1. From regional to
national level.
2. Several and diverse educational and social agents in every regional initiative.
3. Exchange of resources, and knowledge among different initiatives.
4. Involve public administrations on different levels and areas of responsibility
Story GuidesChildren at Primary or High School, in their Language class, prepare stories to tell to younger children who need to improve listening, reading or speaking skills, or their social and cultural integration.
6. Some Spanish S-L Projects
Blood Donation Campaign
6. Some Spanish S-L Projects
Children and teenagers contribute actively with a Blood Donation Campaign:
After learning in Science or Citizenship class, they spread to the community the need for blood and they organize their own campaign to encourage donors.
Teenagers at High School, in their Science or Biology class, adopt a river, pond, channel, or lagoon, which is threatened by destruction or degradation. They do activities including cleaning, conservation, signposting, or spreading the ecological value of the place.
Adopting a river
6. Some Spanish S-L Projects
In the Citizenship class teenagers investigate the city’s Community-based Organizations responsible for Human Rights. They then apply what they have learnt, through games and stories with children at primary schools in the area.
6. Some Spanish S-L Projects
Sharing our Rights
Conecta Joven
6. Some Spanish S-L Projects
Teenagers are taught to teach adults and elderly people in computer skills, helping them to jump the digital gap.
This project is linked to the Technology class, or is an independent initiative of CBO.
7. Our conclusions
1. Service-Learning is not only an educational tool, it is also a way to strengthen the social cohesion in a territory.
2. Service-Learning should be an acknowledgment of existing good practices, and not to be shown as the latest teaching trend.
3. Service-Learning is an opportunity to recover the social sense of the education: it should be useful to improve society and not only individual progress.
Perhaps on the annual celebration of Universal Children’s Day, we could remember an unfortunately
forgotten principle of the 1923 Declaration of Geneva :
7. Our conclusions
The child must be brought up with the consciousness that its talents must be
devoted to the service of others
Thank you very much!
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Service-Learning in
Spain
The 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference
San José, California, March 24-27, 2010
Roser Batlle