Service learning in higher education: from individual participation to institutional participation

Abstract

The text gives an account of the trajectory experienced by a group of academics who were meeting in different university spaces, to implement in their chairs the active participatory methodology called service learning. While this was happening the Chilean universities were invited to install processes related to university social responsibility, driven by the Universidad Construye País Project. The text gives an account of the actions experienced while the university spaces were generating conditions to support the promotion of knowledge with a social and ethical stamp, going from isolated academic work to a collective one that demands institutionalization.