Educación moral y ética de la acción en el aprendizaje-servicio universitario

Abstract

This article examines the way in which the ideas of John Dewey have influ¬enced the origin and development of service-learning, especially with regard to his analysis of the moral dimension of education, and how this conception has permeated the operational deployment of this educational strategy in higher education. With this in mind, we carried out a comprehensive bib¬liographic review, both of the author’s original texts and of subsequent inter¬pretations that, ultimately, allow us to analyze the existing links between the thoughts of the American philosopher and the ethical and moral possibilities of service-learning. Moreover, we highlight the deliberative and axiological components (participation, commitment, responsibility, etc.) that can be en¬couraged in university students with this methodology, and we delve on the possibility of reconstructing a democratic citizenship based on an ethics of action from a community needs assessment.