A guide for Service Learning Institutionalization of a career

INTRODUCTION

The following guide is a flexible model for the institutionalization of Service Learning in the curriculum of a career at the P. Universidad Católica de Chile. It comprises stages and steps to follow, which can be adapted to the particular processes and culture of any higher education career. This model consists of a stage of diagnostic, design and implementation proposal, and the implementation and evaluation of pilot courses. These stages are accompanied by a set of practical tools that will guide the process as the various stages are addressed. Furthermore, the model has spaces for constant information systematization that will allow, in case of any contingency within

the career, to stop the process and resume it without any setbacks. The objective of this guide is to provide guidance to the teaching staff and/or management teamof a career in the design, implementation and evaluation of a process of SL institutionalization in the UC. This guide has been developed after a dialogic process of trial anderror; it considered the development of the methodology in the academic community, which implied a large community of committed and trained professors, more courses implementing the methodology and social organizations (community partners) willing to contribute to this formative process. In this sense, this guide gathers the experience accumulated

8