Continuing the Dissemination of the Service-Learning Approach

On 25th March, the book Service Learning in Università. Il progetto nessuno resta indietro, written by Alessandra La Marca (Rector’s Delegate for Teacher Training and Teaching Methodologies, coordinator of the University Centre for Teacher Training and the MSc in Primary Education Sciences) and Ylenia Falzone (PhD student in Health Promotion and Cognitive Sciences), was presented at the International Conference on Service-Learning organized by Università degli Studi di Palermo.

The authors and the following specialists in the subject attended the meeting: Professor Maria Cinque (Scuola Alta Formazione “Educare all’Incontro e alla Solidarietà EIS” LUMSA), Nicola Andrian (Director of the Centre for Continuous Education and Professional Training BEA, UNEB – Universidade do Estado da Bahia), Giulia Andronico (Professor of Service-Learning, University of Palermo), Rossana Sicurello (Professor of Service-Learning, University of Palermo) and Andres Peregalli, Vice-coordinator of the Uniservitate programme (CLAYSS/Porticus) and professor at Catholic University of Argentina (UCA).

If you want to watch the whole conference —you will find different presentations—, please visit (in Italian): https://acortar.link/NTPE98

With the desire to “give value to service-learning”, this Thursday, 11th April, the International Conference held by the Western Europe South hub of the Universitate Programme (service-learning in Catholic higher education institutions) was held in Italy. The discussions and dissertations revolved around the service-learning evaluation and how to improve its design and implementation to give more and more quality to the projects and institutionalization processes in universities.

The event, which took place at the Brescia headquarters of the Sacro Cuore Catholic University, was attended by authorities, educators and students from universities in Spain, Portugal and Italy and community partners from different cities.

The participants agreed that they evaluate to obtain information that interprets and challenges what they think, do and know and to promote a holistic education of solidarity humanism that unites the head, the heart, the hands, the feet and the soul.

Andrés Peregalli, the vice-coordinator of the Uniservite Programme, attended the event and stated that the Conference referred “to the treasure that is the service-learning approach, as a lamp you turn on and need to show and place on the table so that it illuminates the training experience of the participants and contributes to solving problems with the community and achieving the education that the 21st century requires.”