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T1 Educating Future Agricultural Engineers at the University of Burgos, Spain, through a Service-Learning Project on Rural Depopulation and Its Social Consequences
A1 Revilla Cuesta, Víctor
A1 Skaf Revenga, Marta
A1 Manso Villalaín, Juan Manuel
A1 San-José, José T.
A1 Ortega López, Vanesa
K1 Agricultural engineering
K1 Agri-food building
K1 Depopulation
K1 Qualitative analysis
K1 Reflection activity
K1 Rural environment
K1 Service-learning project
K1 Social service
K1 University teaching
K1 Word-cloud mixed analysis
K1 Ingeniería
K1 Engineering
K1 Agricultura
K1 Agriculture
K1 Enseñanza superior
K1 Education, Higher
AB A Service-Learning Project (S-LP) is a teaching experience through which the conceptscovered 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-LPexperience is reported in this paper that was conducted with students of agricultural engineering toaddress 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 wasadministered to both students and teachers, to assess the success of this teaching experience. Theresponses 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 throughtheir 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 skillssearching for information. In general, an S-LP is an experience that the teachers in this study wouldrecommend and that could be especially relevant for universities assuming a role as a social entity toheighten the visibility of social problems and needs.
PB MDPI
YR 2023
FD 2023-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8016
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8016
LA eng
NO This 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.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 10-may-2024