A Guide for the design and implementation of a service-learning (SL)

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transferable knowledge, where it encourages the ability to apply what has been learned (Furco, 2011). This generates people to get involved in a conscious way in their learning process, without losing the sense of the activities they carry out. Therefore, it not only helps the acquired learning, but also the autonomy and responsibility with work. The mission of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is to strive for excellence in the construction and transfer of knowledge and in the training of people, inspired by a Catholic conception and always at the service of society .

Nowadays, the limits of knowledge in the different disciplines have expanded, causing the need for an evolution around training techniques and professional profile, according to the new demands of the labor field. This is how the demand for a learning linked to experience arises, adequate to connect theory and practice of future professionals. When a person in the learning process faces the challenge to respond to a wide range of real situations, he/she consolidates a significant, contextualized and

development around the common good, generating a reciprocal transfer of knowledge and resources among the university, society and the State (UC Development Plan 2015-2020). In 2004, the Service-Learning Program (SLP) was created, a teaching and learning methodology that promotes learning situated and based on experience , oriented to the application of the contents seen in the classroom through services developed with communities that have real needs , which may be covered with the service that the students may provide from the course.

As an institution of higher education, the duty is to know the context in which it is inserted, to understand the reality of society and, based on this, to guide its generation of knowledge and training of professionals specifically where it is called to serve. In this way, the university is committed, interested and concerned about being a contribution to social

MEANINGFUL LEARNING

TRAINING IN VALUES

By combining learning with service, we add value to each of them and transforms both.

SIGNIFICANT LEARNING

QUALITY SERVICE

CHAPTER I: KEY CONCEPTS

CHAPTER I: KEY CONCEPTS

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