Resources
This page contains resources that may be useful if you would like more information on service-learning. You may also read the leaflet on SL at the UAB, which is available to the left of the screen.
Resources
Tracing the Culture of Knowledge. An Audiovisual Device. Toolkit ApS created by members of the Department of Philosophy at UAB (UAB, 2024).The complete Toolkit can be accessed at the following link: Transforming the Culture of Knowledge Toolkit UAB.
University service-learning: Communication experience with the La Sàrria Cooperative. Interdisciplinary project between two subjects from two different bachelor’s degrees in the UAB’s Faculty of Communication Studies and the La Sàrria Cooperative (bicycle delivery service in Sabadell).
#SL: Give your TFG a real-world application. Learn more about the project “El dimoni i les pedres” [The Devil and the Stones], developed by a Primary Education student in cooperation with the Palau-solità i Plegamans Municipal Council in 2021.
SL at the UAB. Video featuring several people explaining what university SL at the UAB is, created by UAB’s Teaching Innovation Group in SL in 2020.
Want to incorporate SL methodology into your TFG? Informational video for students interested in doing more than just a TFG, created by the SL Office in 2020.
SL testimonies - TFG Awards. Hear about the experiences of two award recipients from the first edition of the TFG with SL Awards.
#FemJustíciaGlobal at the University. Testimony from one of the award-winning students from the 5th edition of the awards for the best TFGs on sustainable development and global justice for her project with SL methodology in cooperation with the Barcelona Municipal Council.
11th National and 5th International Congress on University SL. Barcelona. 2023. Video summary.
The Big Draw. Service-learning project developed in the UAB’s Faculty of Educational Sciences in 2020.
Inclusive Perspectives. Result of a service-learning project with third-sector organisations. 2020.
SL experience of two lecturers from the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Terrassa. More information is available on the website https://www.terrassadigital.cat.
5th Service-Learning Day at the UAB. Faculty of Translation and Interpreting. 2024
4th Service-Learning Day at the UAB. Faculty of Communication Studies. 2023
2nd Service-Learning Day at the UAB. TFGs with SL Awards ceremony and roundtable discussion: “What does a TFG with SL methodology entail?”
This is a compilation of all the documents we have created at the UAB, to support and systematise service-learning projects at our university. If there are any missing, please inform us at aprenentatge.servei@uab.cat.
- Guide for organisations on how to cooperate with a TFG with SL methodology at the UAB.
- Guide for teaching staff on how to supervise a TFG with SL methodology at the UAB.
- Guide for students on how to do a TFG with SL methodology at the UAB.
- Model agreement for a TFG with SL methodology.
- SL description sheet. Description sheet that must be completed by teaching staff who are supervising an SL project for the first time. This document asks about the various criteria and elements of the SL project, which an assessment committee subsequently confirms. It is essential for certifying the experience as SL.
- Assessment table for the TFGs with SL Awards. Document that lists the criteria used to determine the quality of an SL project.
- Transforming the culture of knowledge: From the privileged epistemic subject to the network of shared knowledge. A toolkit to promote the ApS methodology in Bachelor's Degree Final Projects created by members of the Department of Philosophy of the UAB. The toolkit is completed with an audiovisual device that you can consult here.
- Checklist to tutor a TFG with ApS at the UAB. List of compulsory and recommended tasks to be carried out by the tutors of Bachelor's Degree Final Projects with Service Learning at the UAB.
The following is a compilation of all scientific articles related to service-learning in which members of the UAB have been involved. If you have published an article on SL and it does not appear in the list, please send it to aprenentatge.servei@uab.cat.
List of articles (alphabetic order):
Blanch, S., Blanes, I., Bosco, A., Campoy, S., Casillas, S., Castells, E., et al. (2022). Experiències docents d'Aprenentatge i Servei a la UAB. Eines d'innovació docent en educació superior; 9. Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Servei de publicacions. https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/colleccioIDES/eines9.pdf
Blanch, S., Comes, P., Edo, M., Estrada, J., Gimeno, X., Moron, M., París, G., & Peire, T. (2016). Qüestionari d’avaluació del desenvolupament de les competències personals i prosocials. Bellaterra: Dipòsit digital de documents de la UAB. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/145653
Blanch, S., Edo, M., & Comes, P. (2013). Aprendizaje Servicio (ApS) en el practicum IV del grado de Educación Infantil. Un enfoque educativo que fomenta la implicación social del alumnado y completa su capacitación profesional. En Muñoz Carril, P.C., Raposo- Rivas, M., González Sanmamed, M., Martínez-Figueira, M.E., Zabalza-Cerdeiriña, M., & Pérez-Abellás, A. (eds). Un Practicum para la formación integral de los estudiantes. (pp. 503-516). Santiago de Compostela: Andavira.
Edo, M., & Blanch, S. (2016). El patio de los deseos. Un proyecto de aprendizaje y servicio. En: J. Gairín e I. Vizcaíno. Manual de Educación Infantil. Orientaciones y Recursos (0-6 años). (pp.1-11). Barcelona: Wolters Kluwer. En línea mediante suscripción en la plataforma digital ebiblox.
Esteban R. (2024). L'aprenentatge i servei en el treball final del grau de Dret dins Cid, J. (coord.) et al. Innovació docent i aprenentatge jurídic. Desafiaments i oportunitats del nou model docent del grau de Dret. (pp. 49-55) Bellaterra: Facultat de Dret de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/llibres/2024/298706/inndocapr_a2024.pdf
García Romero, D., Macías-Gómez-Estern, B. ., Martínez-Lozano, V. ., & Lalueza, J. L. . (2024). El aprendizaje auténtico en el aprendizaje-servicio. Educación formal, participación social y cambio identitario. Revista De Educación, 1(404), 81–107. https://doi.org/10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2024-404-618
García-Romero, D., Lalueza, J.L., & Blanch-Gelabert, S. (2021). Análisis de un proceso de institucionalización del Aprendizaje-Servicio universitario. Athenea Digital, 21(3), e2934. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.2934
García-Romero, D. & Lalueza, J.L. (2019). Procesos de aprendizaje en ApS universitario: una revisión teórica. Educación XX1 https://doi.org/10.5944/
García-Romero, D. (2018). L'ApS en contextos d'exclusió social a Barcelona. Shere Rom-5D. En Escofet, A. & Fuertes, M.T. (coords.): Construint vinvles entre universitat i societat. 20 experiències d'aprenentatge servei a les universitats catalanes. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Recuperat de: https://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/129644/1/9788491682103%20%28Creative%20Commons%29.pdf
García-Romero, D., Martínez-Lozano, Virginia, & Lalueza, J.L. (2018). Los diarios de campo en la evaluación del Aprendizaje-Servicio. En M. Ruiz-Corbella & J. García-Gutiérrez (Eds.), Aprendizaje-Servicio. Los retos de la evaluación (pp. 153-168). Madrid: Narcea.
García-Romero, D., Sánchez-Busqués, S., & Lalueza, J.L. (2018). Exploring the value of Service Learning: students’ assessments of personal, procedural and content learning. Estudios sobre Educación, 35, 557-577 https://doi.org/10.15581/004.
Lalueza, J.L. & Macías-Gómez-Estern, B. (2020): Border crossing. A service-learning approach based on transformative learning and cultural-historical psychology (Cruzando la frontera. Una aproximación al aprendizaje Servicio desde elaprendizaje transformativo y la psicología histórico-cultural), Culture and Education, 32(3), 556-582 https://doi.org/10.1080/11356405.2020.1792755
Lalueza, J.L., Sánchez-Busqués, S., & García-Romero, D. (2019). Following the trail of the 5th Dimension: University-community partnership to design educational environments. Mind, Culture & Activity https://doi.org/10.1080/
Lalueza, J.L., Sánchez-Busqués, S., & Padrós, M. (2016). Creando vínculos entre Universidad y Comunidad: el proyecto Shere Rom, una experiencia de aprendizaje servicio en la Faciltad de Psicología de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje Servicio, nº2, pp. 33-69.
Lalueza, J. L., Peries, D., Valdivia-Vizarreta, P., & Blanch-Gelabert, S. (2023). ¿Qué sabemos acerca del impacto social de los programas de ApS universitario? Un estudio de caso. RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio, (16), 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1344/RIDAS2023.16.6
Macías-Gómez-Estern, B. & Lalueza, J.L. (2024). Navigating I-positionings in higher education Service Learning as hybrid scenarios: a case study. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 45, 100805 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100805
París, G., Blanch, S., Comes, P., Edo, M., Estrada, J., Gimeno, X, Moron, M., & ¿ Peire, T. (2017). Rúbrica d’autoavaluació de competències i habilitats personals i prosocials. Bellaterra: Dipòsit digital de documents de la UAB. Recuperat de https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/recdoc/2017/169417/RUBRICA_publicar_DDD.pdf
Sánchez-Busqués, S., García Romero, D., Lalueza, J.L., Padrós, M., Macías-GómezEster, B., Marco-Macarro, M.J., & Martínez-Lozano, V. (2018). Proyecto de aprendizaje-servicio para la docencia, intervención e investigación en contestos de exclusión social. Revista Española de Desarrollo y Cooperación, nº42, pp. 85-44.
The following are a series of guides created by the Catalan University Service-Learning Network [ApS(U)Cat Network], in which the UAB takes part as a university and which were published with support from the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP). These documents provide an in-depth look at service-learning in various fields and university contexts, and their purpose is to build and disseminate knowledge on SL at the University. These guides should offer readers an opportunity to reflect on and draw inspiration from topics related to university service-learning.
- ApS(U)CAT Network - Catalan University Service-Learning Network (2019). Guide 0: Service-Learning at University. ACUP
- ApS(U)CAT Network (2020). Guide 1: Service-Learning and Reflective Practice. ACUP
- ApS(U)CAT Network (2021).Guide 2: Service-Learning and Curricular Placements in Bachelor’s Degrees in Education. ACUP
- ApS(U)CAT Network (2021). Guide 3: Profiguration, Service-Learning and Intergenerational Relationships. ACUP
- ApS(U)CAT Network (2022). Guide 4: Service-Learning and Social Inclusion. ACUP
- ApS(U)CAT Network (2023).Guide 5: Service-Learning Experiences in External Curricular Placements. ACUP
The following are a series of websites, publications and other relevant resources created outside the UAB community that may be useful for anyone involved in SL projects.
Catalan University Service-Learning Network (ApS(U)Cat): https://www.apsucat.cat/
GREM: Research Group on Moral Education at the University of Barcelona (UB): https://www.ub.edu/GREM/inici. This group created, among other things, the Rubric for the Self-Assessment and Enhancement of SL Projects. Barcelona: Jaume Bofill Foundation (2014).
UB SL Promotion Centre https://aprenentatgeservei.cat/
SL at the Bofill Foundation https://www.fbofill.cat/aprenentatge-servei-aps
Spanish SL Network https://aprendizajeservicio.net/
Roser Batlle https://roserbatlle.net/aprendizaje-servicio/iniciativas-en-espana/red-aps-universidades/
Barcelona Education Consortium https://www.edubcn.cat/asc/