A guide for Service Learning Institutionalization of a career

The increas ing number of courses implementing SL implied the challenge of establishing support beyond the isolated course. It was then necessary to think of a model with stages and concrete actions that would systematically and operationally incorporate the SL methodology into the curriculum. Thus, theUC SL Institutionalization Model was born, which corresponds to a sustainable way in time of incorporating it into the curriculum of a career and coherent with the achievement of the graduate profile of the UC and the development of

its distinctive mark. This, in accordance with Furco’s. (2008) proposals, implies converting the SL methodology into a daily practice, widely spread, supported and institutionally legitimized This model was built from a long practical-reflective process within the UC, which allowed identifying one by one the characteristics that it should have to be used by any career of the university, considering the heterogeneity of internal processes within each career. Thus, today the challenge is to institutionalize it throughout the university.

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SL Institutionalization

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Sustained incorporation

ENSURING THIS EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE

To make this incorporation long-term, the model must have a flexible and resilient structure to deal with unforeseen events and processes specific to the context. This is why the model has a structure of basic stages, which allow it to adapt to changes, such as curricular renewal, academic internal rotation and/or accreditation processes, or specifically to the organizational culture itself. Themodel aims to meet three conditions (Curry, 1992), which are: Institutional structural, cultural

and procedural integration of the SL methodology at the career level (Jouannet, Montalva, Ponce, & Von Borries, 2015). The structural condition refers to the concrete support for innovation and the coupling with other pre-existing organizational structures. The procedural condition refers to standardized and validated operating procedures. And finally, the cultural condition refers to the norms and values that must be accepted by themembers of the organization.

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