Aprendizaje-Servicio en los Programas Universitarios para Mayores

Résumé

The university now has a very important role in society, as reflected in the Statute of college student (Martínez-Agut and Ull, 2011). The ethics education of college is a quality factor of higher education in today's world, having three dimensions, ethical training on the exercise of the various professions; citizenship and civic education of their students and human, personal and social education, which contributes to the moral and ethical optimization future and future graduates as individuals (Martinez, 2008). Service Learning is defined as a methodology that combines in a single activity content learning, skills and values with performing tasks of community service (Tapia, 2006). Service-learning based on the idea that mutual aid is a mechanism better than the obsessive pursuit of individual gain (Puig, 2009) personal, economic and social progress. We believe that service-learning is a methodology closely linked with the formation of the elderly and related with most of the subjects offered in the training routes of University Programs for seniors. Students can carry out their projects and share them with their peers in the classroom, leading to debates on the roles of older people in society. An experiment carried out with students from Grade over three academic in the field of sustainability courses is presented.