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

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INSTRUMENTS FOR SL DIAGNOSTIC

Participant Observation

or for activating the collective knowledge of a community. Beyond the technique to be used, it is important to ensure the greatest possible participation and involvement of the people in the community, in order to have the most accurate diagnostic possible. other methodologies Reference material: National Ministry of Education (2009). Solidarity Education. Itinerary and tools to develop a service-learning project. Buenos Aires: Argentina, National Solidarity Education Program.

consists of observing in a systematic and controlled way everything that happens in the researcher's environment, and on the other hand, participating by taking part in activities carried out by members of the population . Reference material : Guber, R. (2004). El salvaje metro- politano. Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidós.

It is based on the assumption that presence guarantees, to a large extent, the reliability of the data collected and the learning of the senses underlying upon the activity of that population. Observation, on the one hand, contemplates visualizing the phenomenon in its social context. It is a procedure that makes it possible to discover, assess and contrast realities in the field of study. While participation is a function that corresponds to the researcher, who does not become a person integrated in the field, but participates with an external, but active, viewpoint. In short, participant observation is research that involves social interaction between the researcher and the participant in the social setting. On the one hand , it consists on

Participative diagnostic: Participative diagnostic allows for a broad vision of the issue to be worked on within the community. In this sense, it allows all the people involved in the problematic to have the option of sharing their knowledge, promoting a democratic exercise, as the opinions of all the people who will be co-protagonists of the project will be taken into consideration. One way to carry out this information gathering may be a day, a meeting with predefined questions, focus groups,

TOOLS FOR FIELD WORK

TOOLS FOR FIELD WORK

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