Service Learning (SL) or Aprenentatge Servei (ApS)
Service Learning is an educational method whereby students are trained through participation in a project aimed at solving a real need in a community and thereby improving people’s living conditions or the quality of the environment.
1. Service Learning is:
- A social responsibility of the university
- An educational proposal
2. A project must be designed
- In which learning is related to:
- The academic curriculum
- The development of personal skills
- A community service
3. Involving:
- The identification of a need
- A plan to resolve it
- A thinking process
4. Essential ingredients:
- A social need
- An organisation
- A subject (all or part)
Download the Service Learning brochure here (in Catalan)