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Service Learning Experiences in the Bachelor’s Degree in Infant Education

Society, family and education

  • Coordination: Josep Holgado (josep.holgado(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Schools in the city of Tortosa.
  • Summary:Tandem is a socioeducational project conducted in the city of Tortosa. The project aims to promote the social, cultural and linguistic integration and the personal and educational development of Tortosa school children. To achieve these aims, the project brings together numerous educational and social agents from the city to help them construct a plan for these children to be constantly accompanied. The project is called Tandem because the participants (2+2) are, on the one hand, pairs of schoolchildren from schools in the city of Tortosa and, on the other hand, pairs of mentors (who may be URV undergraduates studying Infant and Primary Education at the Terres de l'Ebre campus or pupils from the local secondary school studying Social Integration.
  • You can listen to the experience in Tarragona Ràdio
  • More information: http://pedagogia.fcep.urv.cat/tandem/
  • Vídeo: 

  • Coordination: Barbara Biglia
  • Community organization: El Vendrell Town Council - Taula Comunitària.
  • Summary: In this experience of APS, the students have to create families spaces, support and collective learning for the education of their children. The students will partipate in a project which is working since 2014, answering the request detected in the groups of woman in the community project. It is about supporting mothers of the neighborhood school of Les Planes flats (85% are foreigner families, especially from Morocco) so that they have tools and they can develop abilities that facilitate the education and the raise of their child. Moreover, this mothers who participate in the community project get security in themselves, because this space also let them to practice the language (Catalan or Spanish), which empower them and win self esteem and security and faith to their surroundings. At the same time of the working spaces with mothers, activities for their children will be done. This activities will let them work the same values but adapting them to their ages. One time a month activities with mother and children will be organized. This initiative tries to facilitate competencies for the families so in the educational field as in the social and relational field, and give to the youngest ones a space of relationship and learning values through the games and the creativity.

Learning and personality development

  • Coordination: Gisela Ferré (gisela.ferre(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Bonavista Public School.
  • Summary: Within the framework of the subject "Learning and development of personality", which shares the first-year student of 4 different degrees from the Faculty of Education and Psychology (FCEP) (Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Social Education and Pedagogy), integration in the classroom of the 1st and 2nd elementary students of the Public School of Bonavista is addressed. The school has a maximum complexity of group C. Students of the university hold sessions of observation of the integration between equals in the classroom and elaborates a proposal of integration taking into account the evolutionary characteristics of the children. The observation sessions are held in small groups during the month of November, and in February the contributions are returned to the school.

Primary schools - LECXIT

  • Coordination: Joan Fuguet (juan.fuguet(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Schools in the cities of Tarragona and Reus.
  • Summary: The LECXIT program aims to increase the educational success of young children by improving their reading comprehension. The key to LECXIT lies in the children enjoying themselves. They work by playing with adult members of the children's environment who accompany them for the programme's activities. The project is intended for second-year primary education students who take a reading education course. The intention is to create a link between community service and academic training.
  • More information: http://www.lectura.cat/

Teaching and learning language and literacy

  • Coordination: Pilar Iranzo (pilar.iranzo(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations: Secallets School (Coma-Ruga), Àngel Guimerà School (El Vendrell) and Teresina Martorell School (El Vendrell).
  • Summary: Learning communities insert teaching-learning processes into contexts of interaction between children and the community. They also require adults to assist in socio-cultural interactions and to chaperone the infants so that they can learn.

    In this course, the students of the Baix Penedès Faculty collaborate with interactive groups at schools as adults who are a source of oral language, thus providing language immersion and symbolic play. The students are members of groups of three or four people and they prepare activities in response to the needs of the community and using the resources of the library. Each task involves designing, developing and evaluating the children, and also evaluating their own learning as future teachers.

Teaching and learning language and literacy I

  • Coordination: Francesca Segarra Ibáñez (francisca.segarra(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Maria Fortuny school of Reus.
  • Summary: This project develops oral competence in the language that is the medium of communication and learning at the school. The students plan oral language activities, design natural teaching-learning situations, and implement a personalized programme with the school's pupils.

Inclusive school and early care

  • Coordination: Pilar Iranzo (pilar.iranzo(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations: Secallets School (Coma-Ruga), Àngel Guimerà School (El Vendrell) and Teresina Martorell School (El Vendrell).
  • Summary: Learning communities insert teaching-learning processes into contexts of interaction between children and the community. They also require adults to assist in socio-cultural interactions and to chaperone the infants so that they can learn.
     
    In this course, the students of the Baix Penedès Faculty collaborate with interactive groups at schools as adults who are a source of oral language, thus providing language immersion and symbolic play. The students are members of groups of three or four people and they prepare activities in response to the needs of the community and using the resources of the library. Each task involves designing, developing and evaluating the children, and also evaluating their own learning as future teachers.

Teaching and learning language and literacy II

  • Coordination: Pilar Iranzo (pilar.iranzo(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations: Secallets School (Coma-Ruga), Àngel Guimerà School (El Vendrell) and Teresina Martorell School (El Vendrell).
  • Summary: Learning communities insert teaching-learning processes into contexts of interaction between children and the community. They also require adults to assist in socio-cultural interactions and to chaperone the infants so that they can learn. 

    In this course, the students of the Baix Penedès Faculty collaborate with interactive groups at schools as adults who are a source of oral language, thus providing language immersion and symbolic play. The students are members of groups of three or four people and they prepare activities in response to the needs of the community and using the resources of the library. Each task involves designing, developing and evaluating the children, and also evaluating their own learning as future teachers.

Teaching and learning Music, Plastic expression and Corporal expression ll (Campus Terres de l’Ebre)

  • Coordination: Joan Francesc Vidal Arasa (joanfrancesc.vidal(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations: School Mare Natura, School Voramar, Roseta Mauri High School, ZER Riu i Serra, ZER Montcaro
  • Summary: This Service Learning experience arises from an innovation proposal that aims to disseminate the proposals of the Music Learning Theory (MTL) (Gordon, 2007) regarding the preparatory Audition in children from 0 to 5 years, and facilitate its application in the nursery schools of Tortosa. One of the lines of action is to include in project in the university formation, specifically with the student of third year of schoolteaching in Campus Terres de l’Ebre. Student participates in a pilot plan that consists of attending 4 formative sessions of MTL and to collaborate in the elaboration and design of didactic materials. Also student take part as an observer listener of the sessions of "Music in family" through videoconferences. Student must design and execute in small groups a session of preparatory Audition in the Mare Natura school.

Psychoeducational Intervention in Social, Ethnic and Cultural Diversity

  • Coordination: Mª Àngels Piquet Vilanova (mariaangeles.piquet(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tortosa Council Town - Espai Obert d'Aprenentatge
  • Summary: With this experience of Service Learning it is tried to make known entities outside the purely school environment that serve families with social, ethnic and cultural diversity, and offer proposals for educational intervention. Student collaborate in the Family Workshops and is part of the municipal socio-educational action program PEE 6.1.6. This program emerges from the social reality of the city of Tortosa, which needs joint actions and networking aimed at children and young people aged between 6 and 16 and their families. The workshops are aimed directly at mothers, with the aim of improving their degree of autonomy and resources to develop the accompaniment that their children needs in the school environment, as well as to improve their basic capacities to be able to participate more in the educational community and have more autonomous and active role in the relationship with the school. Students give support and participate in the workshops aimed at mothers with a low/medium catalan language level to improve oral language skills in catalan, understanding that for newly arrived families, one of the most important difficulties is communication with the school and educational agents. Student support the person dynamizing, participates in the design and planning of the workshops and energizes some activities.

Teaching and learning language and literacy III (Seu Baix Penedès)

  • Coordination: Pilar Iranzo (pilar.iranzo(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations: Secallets School (Coma-Ruga), Àngel Guimerà School (El Vendrell) and Teresina Martorell School (El Vendrell)
  • Summary: Learning communities insert teaching-learning processes into contexts of interaction between children and the community. They also require adults to assist in socio-cultural interactions and to chaperone the infants so that they can learn. 

    In this course, the students of the Baix Penedès Faculty collaborate with interactive groups at schools as adults who are a source of oral language, thus providing language immersion and symbolic play. The students are members of groups of three or four people and they prepare activities in response to the needs of the community and using the resources of the library. Each task involves designing, developing and evaluating the children, and also evaluating their own learning as future teachers.

Teaching and learning language and literacy III

  • Coordination: Francesca Segarra Ibáñez (francisca.segarra(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Maria Fortuny school of Reus
  • Summary: This project is aimed at mothers and fathers for whom the language of communication and learning at the school is different from the language they use at home. The project seeks to develop these parents' oral competence in the school language. One day a week, in either the morning or the afternoon, the parents are invited to attend conversation groups with scheduled activities that will enable them to practice their spoken command of the language.

Cooperation Practicum

  • Coordination: Paloma Vicens (paloma.vicens(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: El Sueño de la Campana Foundation.
  • Summary: The practicum is the result of a cooperation agreement signed in the 2004-2005 academic year between the URV School of Education Sciences and Psychology (FCEP) and the El Sueño de la Campana Foundation of San Ramón in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The main aim of the project approved by the Faculty Board is to include and developed since the academic course 2012-13 until now, as part of our students' training, supportive external practicums that will help them become both good professionals and individuals who are sensitive to the problems of the modern world and who understand how people in other countries who suffer from poverty and marginalization live. The URV School of Education Sciences and Psychology participates in the educational, psychological and social aspects of the collaboration agreement and works mainly with the most vulnerable groups, such as children, teenagers and women. Undergraduate students of Infant Education who take part in these practicums perform tasks specific to their area of training in several schools in San Ramón under the supervision of school tutors, tutors from the FCEP, and the psychologist of the El Sueño de la Campana Foundation.

Final project - Cooperation Practicum

  • Coordination: Paloma Vicens (paloma.vicens(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: El Sueño de la Campana Foundation.
  • Summary: Students who have taken part in the above practicum since the academic year 2012-13 can conduct their final project on the same subject.

Final Project - Development of a programme for primary schoolchildren at the Ebto Museum of the Sea

  • Coordination: Margarita Celma (margarita.celma(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Museu de la Mar de l'Ebre.
  • Summary: The Ebro Museum of the Sea had no educational programme for primary schoolchildren since the academic year 2018-19, in wich one this project was realized. Students on this project therefore developed a programme to make the Museum available to these children and turn it into an educational resource for the town. 

Oral communicative competence and popular culture

  • Coordination: Edward Lockhart (edwardalvar.lockhart(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Public libraries of Tarragona
  • Summary: In this course, students prepare a one-hour storytelling session in English in one of the public libraries of the province in Tarragona. In this way, Tarragona school children have greater contact with the library in their area, the use of English extends beyond the context of the school, and our students' tasks become more real and, therefore, more significant. The stories told during these sessions have a hidden ethical and moral content that transmits important values to the schoolchildren.

Psychoeducational intervention in emotional and relationship difficulties

  • Coordination: Cinta Forcadell (cinta.forcadell(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations: Diocesan School Sagrada Familia of Tortosa, School Jaume Balmes of Santa Bàrbara, Teresian School of Tortosa, School 21 d'Abril, School Carles III, School Cinta Curtó, School Consol Ferré of Amposta, School El Temple, School Ferreries, School Horta Vella of la Ràpita, School Joan Baptista Serra of Alcanar, School Marcel·lí Domingo of Roquetes, School l'Assumpció of Deltebre, School La Mercé, School Raval de Cristo, School Remolins, School Sant Llatzer, Jaume Valmes School, Consol Ferré School, El Temple School.
  • Summary: This subject is offered to third-year students at the Terres de l'Ebre campus and is part of a new and innovative project for schools called Emotional Education that involves bringing the university closer to schools through collaboration with university students. Students prepare their own teaching materials and conduct their own emotional education learning activities. The dynamics of emotional education developed by the students have led the schools to rethink the introduction of emotional intelligence to the curriculum and to propose the model to be used.
  • You can listen to the experience in Tarragona Ràdio

Artistic project

  • Coordination: Margarita Celma Tafalla (margarita.celma(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Centre de Professors i Recursos of Baix Ebre.
  • Summary: The "Meeting of School" Choirs brings together many schools in the Terres de l'Ebre region. Degree students can take part in this educational project by designing and preparing learning activities. They will also give support by being present at the event. The existence of a social and cultural necessity of diffusion of the musical tradition has made possible the continuity of the project. The conclusions provided by students are used by the entities to make improvement proposals.

Audition: the stories of the music

  • Coordination: Joan Francesc Vidal Arasa
  • Community organization: Kindergarten Mare Natura.
  • Summary: Within the framework of the forth subjects of the Mention of Music of Childhood Education Degree and Primary Education Degree, the students will learn how to schedule musical sessions using the proposals of Music Learning Theroy (Gordon: 2007). They will do practices in a kindergarten and they will write a report of the individual progress of every kid for the families. Finally, they will also do self-contained a musical session with families.

Dance: music in movement

  • Coordination: Joan Francesc Vidal Arasa
  • Community organization: Kindergarten Mare Natura.
  • Summary: Within the framework of the forth subjects of the Mention of Music of Childhood Education Degree and Primary Education Degree, the students will learn how to schedule musical sessions using the proposals of Music Learning Theroy (Gordon: 2007). They will do practices in a kindergarten and they will write a report of the individual progress of every kid for the families. Finally, they will also do self-contained a musical session with families.

Musical language

  • Coordination: Joan Francesc Vidal Arasa
  • Community organization: Kindergarten Mare Natura.
  • Summary: Within the framework of the forth subjects of the Mention of Music of Childhood Education Degree and Primary Education Degree, the students will learn how to schedule musical sessions using the proposals of Music Learning Theroy (Gordon: 2007). They will do practices in a kindergarten and they will write a report of the individual progress of every kid for the families. Finally, they will also do self-contained a musical session with families.

Instrumental practice, creativity and improvisation

  • Coordination: Joan Francesc Vidal Arasa
  • Community organization: Kindergarten Mare Natura.
  • Summary: Within the framework of the forth subjects of the Mention of Music of Childhood Education Degree and Primary Education Degree, the students will learn how to schedule musical sessions using the proposals of Music Learning Theroy (Gordon: 2007). They will do practices in a kindergarten and they will write a report of the individual progress of every kid for the families. Finally, they will also do self-contained a musical session with families.

Final Degree Project - Work on emotions in high capacities through ICT (Headquarter Baix Penedès)

  • Coordination: Judith Balanyà Rebollo (judith.balanya(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Altes Capacitats de Tarragona i Terres de l'Ebre Association - ATHENA.
  • Summary: Design enrichment projects aimed at students with high abilities in order to facilitate the schools that need it (schools and institutes) and their families. They can be science-focused projects, such as the arts; transversal and interdisciplinary projects; projects focused on ICT and new technologies, among others.
    The organization wants to offer a range of projects already done aimed at this type of students. The Psychopedagogical Advisory Teams (EAP) have asked the organization to provide materials for these students who are in this situation.
    Therefore, in relation to their need, the proposal aims to use ICT to design and propose an open material, mainly aimed at families but also useful for schools that work on emotions from the area of language.

Final Degree Project - Design of activities for educational care for students with cancer

  • Coordination: Gerardo Meneses Benitez (gerardo.meneses(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Familiars d'Infants i Joves amb Càncer de Tarragona Association - AFANOC.
  • Summary:​​​
  1. Identify the level of work and approach to cancer in Early Childhood Education.
  2. Find out what resources teachers have to work on cancer and how they use it.
  3. Design educational care activities for students with cancer.
  4. Present the AFANOC association as a support tool for teachers in caring for children with cancer.
  5. Analyze teachers' opinions about the resources offered.

Final Degree Project - Educational program for the Ebro Sea Museum

  • Coordination: Margarita Celma Tafalla (margarita.celma(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Museu de la Mar de l'Ebre.  - Sant Carles de la Ràpita City Council
  • Summary: The student contacted the Museu de la Mar de l'Ebre in Sant Carles de la Ràpita because he identified that they did not have any educational programming for children from schools in the village. She thought that it would be very useful for the Museum to be able to draw up an early childhood education program in order to be able to open the Museum to the students of the schools and for it to become an educational resource in the village.

Final Degree Project - Short stories

  • Coordination: Elena de la Cruz Vergari (elena.delacruz(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Cultura i Joventut Department of Reus City Council.
  • Summary: During the 2013-14 academic year, students carried out a teaching unit designed by him in five public schools in Reus and subsequently evaluated them. From here, the students have made proposals for improvement that they have considered according to personal experience and scientific research in the field of teaching in the reflection of the ethical values generated by immigration from underdeveloped countries, to through an audiovisual document. The specific tasks performed by the students were:
    - Implementation of the teaching unit in five public schools in the city of Reus.
    - Analysis of the didactic unit through forms of evaluation of the alumnado and of self-evaluation of the educational task.
    - Research on the didactics of video and the didactics of values (values are understood as the ethical and moral consideration of a social fact)
    - Rethinking and improving the teaching unit.

Final Degree Project - UNICEF school coexistence analysis

  • Coordination: Enric J. Márquez Márquez (enricjacint.marquez(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: UNICEF i Maristes Immaculada Barcelona.
  • Summary: The student makes an analysis of school coexistence and children's rights, which is given in a concerted center during the academic year 2019-2020. Following the first diagnosis of the identification in the school of the aspects of the children who work the least and the knowledge of their needs, the school has started a training in children's rights by UNICEF. This training and needs detection will advance them as a center in matters of rights and this will have a direct impact on students. These rights are usually reduced to specific days where they are commemorated in a superficial way. One of the fundamental objectives of education is the integral development of the student, equality and solidarity and other values that must be known and put into practice.