AN INTERGENERATIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN EXTREMADURA: “#apdintergeneracional

Abstract

This article describes an educational innovation project in Vocational Training through the Service-Learning (S-L) methodology. It is carried out in the Intermediate Vocational Training Course of Attention to People in a Situation of Dependency, during the academic years 2017-2018 and 2019-2020. It arises from the need to eliminate stereotypes and empathize with the older people group. From this premise, a process of reflection begins through Participatory Social Diagnosis tools that led to the design of an ApS project with students as an active protagonist and agent of transformation. The “Rubric for self-evaluation of service-learning projects” was selected as evaluation instrument and was adapted to electronic version through the Corubrics application. Among the results obtained, the identified strong and weak points are pointed out to favor the reflection and implementation of improvement proposals or replicability possibilities.

Keywords: Service-Learning; vocational training; competencies; intergenerationality; Innovative education.