Impact of Educate in A Service Learning Project. Opening Up Values and Social Good in Higher Education

Abstract

In the academic course 19-20, the University of Burgos has launched a call for Service Learning Projects (SLP) with the aim of reinforce the academic skills of the students endorsing a societal transformation. These projects nonetheless pursue very worthwhile goals: to educate students at higher education not only in cognitive aspects, but also in personal growth. Service Learning is a groundbreaking and appeal methodology focused in acquire knowledge by doing community service work. This paper describes a real case scenario composed by students of the University of Burgos from two different careers at the University of Burgos (Degree in Occupational Therapy and Degree in Management Engineering). (N=23 3th, 4th grade students); all have contributed to resolve different challenges by using skills, competences and knowledge of their corresponding disciplines (health and engineering), more specifically, to design and manufacture low cost tools for helping disable people. The contribution adds a picture of how to achieve cognitive competences (technical), social competences (consciousness), ethical competences (compassion) and professional competences (productive versatility), among others. This novel scenario serve for a purpose: opening up values and social good in Higher Education.