Over the past 20 years, our research group has developed a set of action research projects inspired by the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition's Fifth Dimension. In this article, we analyze their historical trajectories by examining their sustainability from the perspective of the experiment by design, as developed by Michael Cole. Taking the motives and contradictions of all partners involved as a starting point, we present a brief analysis of the development of three sites throughout more than 12 years of their existence, revealing the construction of a third space in which the university and the school community pursue their respective goals.
School failure and early school dropout particularly affect members of certain minority groups such as the gypsy 2 population. The obstacles that must be overcome for the members of these groups appear to be related to the discontinuities between the values and goals of community family life and those of the school. This article presents an analysis of obstacles based on the perception of gypsy families and other minority groups who don't have the same difficulties. The findings of this study help to analyze and understand the characteristics that promote the inclusion through extended education communities based on the Fifth Dimension model within the framework of a project developed in Barcelona with the gypsy and immigrant population.
Aprendizaje servicio, grupos minoritarios, gitanos, vínculo universidad-comunidad. Fecha de recepción: 17/VIII/2014 Fecha de aceptación: 30/VII/2015 Lalueza, J.L.; Sánchez-Busqués; S. y Padrós, M. (2016). Creando vínculos entre universidad y comunidad: el proyecto Shere Rom, una experiencia de aprendizaje servicio en la Facultad
AbstractIn this article we describe the project Shere Rom, a network of links between the Autonomous University of Barcelona, gypsie communities and public schools in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. The analysis of the experience highlights two key elements of service learning: a) the project promotes the social return of the university to society, responding to real needs through educational intervention that is developed under the frame of research projects; b) promotes, in college students, the acquisition of knowledge and the development of its own training curriculum skills through participation in a real project and community involvement. After 16 years, with a participation each year between 110 and 140 UAB students and between 250 and 300 children from different ethnic minorities, we can describe the potential that the project offers to each of its participants. Lalueza, J.L.; Sánchez-Busqués; S. y Padrós, M. (2016). Creando vínculos entre universidad y comunidad: el proyecto Shere Rom, una experiencia de aprendizaje servicio en la Facultad
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