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“Pensar el aprendizaje servicio. Ideas, teorías y corrientes [Thinking about service-learning Ideas, theories and approaches]” (Graó, 2025), has just been published in Barcelona. This book invites us to pause and think in depth about the various theoretical approaches underpinning service-learning practices. It is a compilation to rethink education from the viewpoint of solidarity, justice and care.
The work has been coordinated by Xus Martín (University of Barcelona) and brings together a dozen Spanish specialists and a Latin American author, María Nieves Tapia, director of CLAYSS. In this work, she analyses the relationship between the solidarity service-learning approach (SSL) and Paulo Freire’s pedagogy.
This book sets out to think about service-learning: going beyond its instrumental dimension and providing an opportunity for critical, philosophical and pedagogical reflection. The aim is to contribute to giving service-learning a conceptual framework that enriches its meaning, and enhances its internal coherence, enabling a dialogue with the major contemporary debates on education, citizenship, social justice and community.
This work is divided into twelve independent chapters, which approach service-learning from different philosophical, pedagogical and socio-political perspectives, discussing twelve keywords by twelve authors: Global Justice (Brenda Bär); Technology (Anna Escofet); Community (Miquel Àngel Essomba); Gift (Mónica Gijón); Care (Xus Martín); Leadership (Miquel Martínez); Practices (Josep Ma Puig); Solidarity (Montse Payá and Fátima Avilés); Institutionalization (Alexandre Sotelino, Mar Lorenzo and Igor Mella); Interculturalism (Marta Ruiz Corbella and Juan García); Learning scenarios (Jesús Vicente Ruiz), and Awareness (María Nieves Tapia).
This layout makes it possible to offer a multifaceted yet interconnected vision, in which each author contributes a specific lens without losing sight of the common horizon: rethinking service-learning as a practice with ethical, political and formative density.
More information [in Spanish]: https://www.grao.com/libros/pensar-el-aprendizaje-servicio-80086
Free-download Resources on CLAYSS Website
For those working in education who want to add value to their initiatives, research the results of projects implemented worldwide, or want to know how to implement a solidarity service-learning project in their institution for their community with their students. Handbooks, case studies and research available in different languages: https://www.clayss.org/recursos
Uniservitate collection
Mainly focused on Catholic Higher Education, but open to specialists in solidarity service-learning and the general public interested in education and social change. The collection is available on the Uniservitate website:
In Spanish https://www.uniservitate.org/es/publicaciones/
In English https://www.uniservitate.org/publications/
Uniservitate Repository with More than 900 Items!
Theoretical and practical resources on solidarity service-learning and its spiritual dimension in higher education from a multicultural perspective. Here you have free access to download different resources —texts, images, and videos: https://repository.uniservitate.org/es/