Lines of action and principles for the incorporation of service-learning at local level. Networking in the territory

Abstract

This article aims to provide some reflections on the potential of service-learning from a territorial point of view. The construction of educational bets in the local scope through service-learning allows to overcome the development of concrete and isolated experiences and to advance towards the construction of educational networks that have a horizon of common good. The contributions in this sense are based on qualitative experiential research that has combined the documentary analysis of different previous experiences and the action-research process carried out in three Catalan territories (Barcelona, Sant Cugat and Puig-Reig). This text sets out the main lines of action to be developed from the perspective of facilitation and/or coordination in the process of implementing service-learning at a territorial level: Approach to the territory, shared diagnosis; generation of projects; and communication of the territorial commitment. The reflection on this process underlines that all of them are based on principles such as openness, recognition, coherence and sustainability, among others. Likewise, the work also points out some reflections about the educational agency by other agents of the territory, beyond the educational centers, and the strengthening of the network work to generate more educational territories.