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dc.contributor.authorRevilla Cuesta, Víctor 
dc.contributor.authorSkaf Revenga, Marta 
dc.contributor.authorManso Villalaín, Juan Manuel 
dc.contributor.authorSan-José, José T.
dc.contributor.authorOrtega López, Vanesa 
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-15T11:07:11Z
dc.date.available2023-11-15T11:07:11Z
dc.date.issued2023-03
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10259/8016
dc.description.abstractA Service-Learning Project (S-LP) is a teaching experience through which the concepts covered during an educational course can practically be applied to address a given social problem. It is therefore a useful teaching methodology to bring courses closer to the real world. An S-LP experience is reported in this paper that was conducted with students of agricultural engineering to address the problem of rural depopulation, through the design of agri-food buildings for industries, and economic activities that help to maintain a stable population. After the S-LP, a survey was administered to both students and teachers, to assess the success of this teaching experience. The responses of the students showed not only an awareness of the social problem that was addressed, but also a critical spirit that led them to seek the best possible answer, and a global vision of the issue. It helped them to reflect on all of its facets to arrive at a way of engaging with the social problem. Importantly, the students were able to reflect upon how engineers can also serve society through their technical knowledge. The teachers indicated that the S-LP motivated the students on the course, while enabling them to successfully learn the concepts, and to develop independent study skills searching for information. In general, an S-LP is an experience that the teachers in this study would recommend and that could be especially relevant for universities assuming a role as a social entity to heighten the visibility of social problems and needs.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by The University of Burgos through the funding program “III Convocatoria de Proyectos de Innovación Docente y Transformación Social en Aprendizaje y Servicio (ApS) para el Curso Académico 2021–2022”. Furthermore, Javier Manso-Morato was funded by the Spanish Ministry MCIU, AEI and ERDF, grant FPU21/04364.en
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherMDPIes
dc.relation.ispartofEducation Sciences. 2023, V. 13, n. 3, 267es
dc.rightsAtribución 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectAgricultural engineeringen
dc.subjectAgri-food buildingen
dc.subjectDepopulationen
dc.subjectQualitative analysisen
dc.subjectReflection activityen
dc.subjectRural environmenten
dc.subjectService-learning projecten
dc.subjectSocial serviceen
dc.subjectUniversity teachingen
dc.subjectWord-cloud mixed analysisen
dc.subject.otherIngenieríaes
dc.subject.otherEngineeringen
dc.subject.otherAgriculturaes
dc.subject.otherAgricultureen
dc.subject.otherEnseñanza superiores
dc.subject.otherEducation, Higheren
dc.titleEducating Future Agricultural Engineers at the University of Burgos, Spain, through a Service-Learning Project on Rural Depopulation and Its Social Consequencesen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13030267es
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/educsci13030267
dc.identifier.essn2227-7102
dc.journal.titleEducation Sciencesen
dc.volume.number13es
dc.issue.number3es
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiones


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