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Learning and Teaching in and with the Local Community: The Use of a Critical and Innovative Methodology in ESECS / IPLeiria.
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This work presents and reflects on a pedagogical experience conducted at the School of Education
and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, with undergraduate students in Social
Education. This experience carried over the past three years (2015-2018) focuses on the use of
teaching-learning methodologies. They are operationalized in active collaboration with local
community entities / institutions - schools at all levels of education, support institutions for the elderly,
people with disabilities, people in situations of marginalization and social exclusion, health institutions,
local development institutions, cultural equipment, among others - which become privileged contexts
for student training. Being the social educator a relationship agent that acts with educational intention
in different contexts of social intervention, this professional training encourages the use of new
teaching-learning methodologies. Thus, in the Community Animation Strategies course unit, students
are challenged to work on projects where, within a group, they apply theoretical knowledge and carry
out a socio-educational intervention in the chosen local community entity / institution, meeting the
needs felt by the entity institution, or by the target audience belonging to it. Students are challenged to
be the protagonists in building their knowledge [5]).This construction is done, in parallel, in different
contexts: at classroom and at entities chosen by students, in a dialogical and collaborative relationship
between practical intervention and theoretical reflection. These three years of experience allow us to
verify that this methodology of learning in practical context results in benefits for the students. Based
on the content analysis of the individual reflective reports carried out by each of the students – in a
total of 123 students - the idea standing out is that this methodology allows students to practice and
test the theoretical contents learned at the classroom bringing at the same time, real contexts
challenges to the classroom of [4]. In addition, it favors the acquisition of cognitive, non-cognitive and
social-emotional skills in a more solid construction of the social educator's professional profile. It’s
hoped that the experience described here will help to deepen reflection on teaching-learning
methodologies in Higher Education within a framework of involvement with the local community.
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Keywords
Teaching-learning, methodologies Social Education Professional Profile Higher education
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Sousa, J., Milhano, S., Lopes, S., & Mangas, C. (2019). Learning and Teaching in and with the Local Community: The Use of a Critical and Innovative Methodology in ESECS/IPLeiria. In Conference Proceedings International Conference The Future of Education, 9th Edition, Florence, Italy.
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Filodiritto Editore