Buenos Aires
Service learning at the University of Buenos Aires, which coordinates and funds students’ community engagement paths.
Service learning on a large scale
Universities put service learning into practice in different ways. The University of Buenos Aires has a Department of Student Welfare that coordinates and funds community engagement paths, and its flagship programme serves residents of poor and vulnerable communities.
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How universities organise it
- 1A dedicated unitThe university sets up an institution that runs programmes and works with partners.
- 2Funding and coordinationThe university supports community engagement paths organisationally and financially.
- 3Classes with reflectionAfter the action, it is worth discussing what went well, what we learned and what to change.
Other universities
It coordinates the university’s work for society. Around 2,000 students a year take its courses.
The idea of service learning is put into practice by the University of Notre Dame and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.
In Poland, service learning is being developed by, among others, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.
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