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School and community. The Colombian experience with Student Social Service Projects

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Ortega Torres, William Eduardo
Vahos Anaya, M. Alejandra

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Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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One of the most difficult problems that the school is currently facing is that it generates encapsulated knowledge and learning processes that are disarticulated from the characteristics of the context which defines students. Against this background, it is proposed that learning- service can become an alternative that manages to articulate the knowledge of the school with the community in order to generate authentic learning processes. Based on these premises, this article presents a practical study on Student Social Service Projects (SSSP), as an alternative to overcome the dualistic school-community vision. The SSSP is a state requirement that every student from public or private education in Colombia must meet in the upper grades and which, from the theory, is recognized as a scenario of articulation between the school, the community, and the individual. However, the findings show a series of difficulties that have limited its educational scope and reveal a historically fragmented and lacking national educational system, from which the school needs to be rethought and re-signified to strengthen the learning and training processes of students.
Uno de los grandes problemas a los se que enfrenta actualmente la escuela, es que se generan conocimientos y procesos de aprendizaje encapsulados y desarticulados de las características del contexto que definen a sus estudiantes. Frente a este panorama, se plantea que el aprendizaje por servicio puede erigirse como una alternativa que logra articular los saberes de la escuela con la comunidad en miras de generar procesos de aprendizaje auténtico. A partir de estas premisas, este artículo presenta un estudio práctico sobre los Proyectos de Servicio Social Estudiantil (PSSE), como alternativa para superar la visión dualista escuela-comunidad. Los PSSE son un requisito estatal que todo estudiante de educación pública o privada de Colombia debe cumplir en los grados superiores y que, desde la teoría, se reconoce como un escenario de articulación entre la escuela, la comunidad y el individuo. Sin embargo, los hallazgos evidencian una serie de dificultades que han limitado su alcance formativo y dejan entrever un sistema educativo nacional históricamente fragmentado y lleno de carencias, desde el que la escuela necesita ser repensada y resignificada para fortalecer los procesos de aprendizaje y formación de los estudiantes.

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IJERI: International journal of Educational Research and Innovation, ISSN-e 2386-4303, n. 14, 2020, págs. 304-323

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