| CLAYSS NEWSLETTER. JUNE 2019 |
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2nd Service-Learning Conference in Central and Eastern Europe in Romania
The 2nd Service-Learning Week of Central and Eastern Europe will take place from 4 to 6 July in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Within this framework, the second systematized annual regional meeting will be held, which will be an opportunity for institutions and professionals interested in Service-Learning pedagogy to meet, share ideas and practice and envision the future of Service-Learning for the region.
Our goals are:
- promote Service-Learning pedagogy in the region;
- share successful Service-Learning practices that partners are already doing at the national level;
- encourage all stakeholders in Service-Learning pedagogy for further promotion, dissemination and networking in the region; and
- to promote exchange among the actors working on this issue in the region.
If you are interested in attending, please contact: slconferencecee@clayss.org.ar
For more information visit: http://www.clayss.org/CEE/2ndweekcee.html |
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22nd International Service-Learning Conference
The Conference will be held on August 29-30, 2019 at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Alicia Moreau de Justo 1300, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Soon we will publish news about speakers and registration dates but in the meantime you can download the tentative agenda here: http://www.clayss.org.ar/english/conference/22Conference_web3.pdf
More information at:
http://www.clayss.org.ar/english/conference/index.html |
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V International Service-Learning Researchers' Symposium
On August 28, 2019, the international Service-Learning Researchers' Symposium will be held in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina within the framework of the activities of the XVII International Service-Learning Week. The symposium will take place at the Centro de Altos Estudios Universitarios CAEU - OEI Argentina (Paraguay 1583, City of Buenos Aires. Argentina). This new edition is organized by CLAYSS with the support of the Ibero-American Service-Learning Network and sponsored by the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE).
As in previous editions, the approved papers will be presented orally in round tables and during the presentation of papers in poster format. Some authors will be invited to present their work at the 22nd International Service-Learning Conference that will take place on August 29-30, 2019.
More information: http://www.clayss.org.ar/JIAS/english.html |
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Solidarity Service-Learning as an educational policy in Italy
The Institute for Educational Innovation (INDIRE) of the Italian Ministry of Education published the "Guidelines for the Implementation of Service-Learning in Italy". This guide has as reference, among others, some materials published by CLAYSS, as well as the book "Educazione e solidarietà. La pedagogia dell'apprendimento-servizio", published in Italy in 2006 by Prof. Nieves Tapia. For the CLAYSS team, it is a source of great joy that Italy joins the increasingly long list of countries with Service-Learning educational policies, and we are proud to have been able to contribute something to this from Latin America. The document can be downloaded here: http://pheegaro.indire.it/uploads/attachments/1980.pdf |
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CLAYSS in Peru: National Curriculum, Rural Education and National Days
On May 16 and 17, members of CLAYSS were present in the city of Lima, within the framework of the Program for the Promotion of Service-Learning that CLAYSS promotes in Peru. The tight agenda included an intense teacher training session on "The pedagogical proposal of Service-Learning and its application in curriculum implementation"; the Meeting of the Organizing Committee of the National Service-Learning Day (JONASS Peru 2019), to be held at the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University on 25 October; and a meeting with the team of UNESCO's Rural Secondary Education Programme "Horizons" to coordinate joint strategies to promote adolescent leadership. |
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CLAYSS in Spain
From May 18 to 26, Nieves Tapia developed an intense program of conferences and meetings in Catalonia. Among the main activities, she gave a conference in the Municipality of Hospitalet de Llobregat, which for several years has been promoting Service-Learning as a local educational policy; she participated with a presentation in the 5th Conference of the Catalan Universities' ApS Network at the University of Barcelona; she visited the University of Vic, where she held meetings with thesis students and authorities from the Faculty of Pedagogy; she coordinated a workshop for those responsible for educational pastoral care and gave the central conference of the 31st Pedagogical Conference for Pious Schools (Escolapios) in Catalonia.
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| CLAYSS URUGUAY HEADQUARTERS |
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CLAYSS Uruguay launches the second phase of the Support Program for the period 2019-2021
On Friday 17, a meeting was held at the offices of CLAYSS Headquarters in Uruguay with the Institutional Referents who will work at this stage together with the centers. It was a reunion with old collaborators and new members who join the IR team. At the launch, the program was presented by Alejandro Gimelli, Pedagogical Sub-coordinator of the Support Programs and Catalina Thölke, Management Sub-coordinator. Also present were Marianela Fernández, general coordinator of the Uruguay Headquarters and Lucila Leis, president of the CVU. |
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Service-Learning in the Arts in Higher Education
Lenguaje Visual 3 is a class of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata that is integrated by more than 30 teachers of plastic arts, design and visual communication that annually give classes to more than 500 students of different careers of the institution. Since 2009 they work articulating the pedagogy of Service-Learning with the arts with a solidary educational practice that unites illustration, plastic arts, graphic design and editorial production. The objective of the solidarity practice of the course is the production of children's books and audiovisual short films that are exclusively destined to community organizations and schools whose profile is to be regional and national institutions recognized for their social or solidarity work, with whom the course formalizes agreements through the Faculty of Fine Arts. The books are donated to these institutions without any type of profit for the Chair, for the students or for the authors of the texts.
At the end of the course, students become producers of an object that leads them to be protagonists of all stages of the graphic production of this material, contributing to improve their training as future professionals, to have a finished model that can favor their insertion into the labor market.
In their 10 years of trajectory they have made more than 4000 books and 120 audiovisual short films that work as " trailers " of each production. In 2010, they were the winners of a Jury Mention of the Presidential Prize "Educational Solidarity Practices in Higher Education" awarded by the Ministry of Education of the Nation.
They are currently participating in the second year of the Support Program for Solidary Educational Institutions "Aprendizaje-Servicio Solidario en las Artes" of CLAYSS. |
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Service-Learning in the Arts Trainings
Among the actions corresponding to the second year of the Educational Institutions Support Program " Service-Learning in the Arts", the first on-site trainings were carried out in different places of our country to some of the institutions that make up the Program. 136 people from 4 institutions in Argentina were trained in Río Negro, Buenos Aires and City of Buenos Aires.
One of the objectives of the second year of the Program was to begin to support experiences outside of Argentina and, for the first time in the trajectory of CLAYSS this is being done with two municipal public schools of the locality of Limeira, located in San Pablo, Brazil and one in the region of Planadas in Tolima, Colombia, participating in these trainings 65 people. |
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Training in Bolivia
The International Course "Service-Learning Methodology" was held on May 2 and 3, at the Catholic University of Bolivia "San Pablo". Cochabamba Regional Headquarters. Organized by the Regional Academic Direction Cochabamba, the Coordination of Social Interaction and the Career of Social Communication of this University.
May 2, was open to all levels of education and community organizations, with a turnout of 190 people. The UCB-Cochabamba Regional Rector, Dr. Alfonso Vía Reque, and the operational coordination of Prof. Alfonso Alarcón were present.
The international course was attended on line by Dr. Carina Rossa (from Rome, Italy) and Prof. María Nieves Tapia (CLAYSS, from Buenos Aires, Argentina). Also, Dr. Ramiro Salazar Quezada, presented the theme "Service-Learning and University Social Responsibility, as a proposal for education in values for the University of Bolivia". Prof. Graciela del Campo presented the Pedagogy of Service-Learning, illustrating the concepts with numerous examples from schools and universities.
On May 3, she coordinated Workshops for teachers and university students referred to: "How to move towards learning experiences and institutional solidarity service" with 25 teachers and academic directors, and "Basic concepts to develop an SL project" for 50 students from the UCB and other local universities.
The students actively participated, recovering some experiences made in the university, and proposed activities that could be implemented recognizing the three fundamental components of the SL and alliances with community organizations. The evaluation of the participants was very positive and academic and institutional links were established that promise to continue with a good articulation with CLAYSS. |
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Videoconference for Italian Congress
On May 6, Prof. Nieves Tapia gave a videoconference at the First Service-Learning Congress of Italy, which took place in the city of Lucca, organized by the Uibi Foundation, INDIRE (the institute for educational innovation of the Italian Ministry of Education) and EIS-LUMSA. More information about the event (in Italian) can be found here. |
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Launch of the book " Knowledge dialogue between university and communities: eleven experiences of Service-Learning (A+S) USACH”
The Chilean Service-Learning Network launched of the book " Knowledge dialogue between university and communities: eleven experiences of Service-Learning (A+S) USACH. Last Friday, April 26, at 11 a.m., in the Hall of Honor of the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) was presented the book " Knowledge dialogue between university and communities: eleven experiences of Service-Learning (A+S) USACH", which delves into the work that promotes social participation and empowerment, along with the development of skills necessary for professional training with social sense. |
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5th Conference of the Service-Learning Network of Catalan Universities
It took place on May 21 at the University of Barcelona (UB), with the presence of the Vice Chancellor for Equality and Social Action of the UB, Maite Vilalta Ferrer; the Vice Chancellor for Territory and Social Commitment of the University of Girona, Silvia Llach Carles; Joan Elias, President of ACUP (Catalan Association of Public Universities), and around 70 teachers and Service-Learning coordinators from Catalan public and private universities. Nieves Tapia was invited to give the opening lecture, providing an international panorama of Service-Learning in Higher Education. |
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Youth Service America presented the results of Global Youth Service Day 2019
In the Global Youth Service Day report, YSA recorded 1,548 projects in 95 countries, involving 112,387 youth volunteers. It is estimated that 165,187 hours of volunteer work were contributed, valued at US$4,200,705. More information and a map with the location of the projects carried out can be found here: https://leadasap.ysa.org/gysd/ |
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GUNi International Conference
The Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi) will hold its next international conference at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona on 5 and 6 March 2020.
This second edition will focus on how higher education institutions are integrating sustainable development into their main missions, and will focus on showing, explaining and sharing scientific research, innovative practices, projects, programmes and initiatives that university communities are carrying out with the aim of implementing Agenda 2030.
The deadline for papers is 15 September 2019.
More information: http://www.guninetwork.org/activity/international-conference-sustainable-development-goals-higher-education-science-take-action |
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