Service Learning – a field experience based on civic engagement – is long affirmed as a training methodology for teachers and prospective teachers. Many researches show the impact of Service Learning on several dimensions such as professional identity, awareness of diversity and difference, didactic efficacy and pluralization, cross-cutting soft skills and theory-practice connection. But Service Learning mobilizes more than single competences: it involves tranformative “learning to serve”. Such learning needs to be sustained by quality practices: reflective settings, narrative inquiry, student voice. Other aspects that are typical of Service Learning, such as civic engagement and community building, will become more and more central in the future.
Il Service Learning – esperienza sul campo che coinvolge i formandi nell’impegno civico – è internazionalmente affermato come metodologia per la formazione iniziale e in servizio dei docenti. Molte ricerche ne dimostrano gli effetti formativi su aspetti come identità professionale, consapevolezza della pluralità e della diversità, efficacia e diversificazione della didattica, competenze trasversali, collegamento tra teoria e prassi. Nel Service Learning sono in gioco non solo singole competenze, quanto un apprendimento trasformativo verso un atteggiamento professionale di “messa al servizio”. Un tale apprendimento deve essere sostenuto da “pratiche di qualità”: dispositivi riflessivi, ricerca narrativa, student voice. Altri aspetti come l’impegno civico e la comunanza di intenti attraverso l’esperienza, tipici del Service Learning, assumeranno maggiore centralità negli anni a venire.
Cadei, L., Serrelli, E., “Imparare a servire”: le potenzialità trasformative del service learning nella formazione degli insegnanti, <<SCUOLA ITALIANA MODERNA>>, 2021; 2021 (01): 76-89 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/202812]
“Imparare a servire”: le potenzialità trasformative del service learning nella formazione degli insegnanti
Cadei, Livia
;Serrelli, Emanuele
2021
Abstract
Service Learning – a field experience based on civic engagement – is long affirmed as a training methodology for teachers and prospective teachers. Many researches show the impact of Service Learning on several dimensions such as professional identity, awareness of diversity and difference, didactic efficacy and pluralization, cross-cutting soft skills and theory-practice connection. But Service Learning mobilizes more than single competences: it involves tranformative “learning to serve”. Such learning needs to be sustained by quality practices: reflective settings, narrative inquiry, student voice. Other aspects that are typical of Service Learning, such as civic engagement and community building, will become more and more central in the future.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.