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


Society, family and education

  • Coordination: Josep Holgado (josep.holgado(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: 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/
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Learning and development of the personality (Campus Sescelades)

  • Coordination: Gisela Ferré (gisela.ferre(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: 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.

Learning and personality development (Campus Terres de l’Ebre)

  • Coordination: Mª Àngels Piquet Vilanova (angelspiquet(ELIMINAR)@gmail.com)
  • Entity: Tortosa town hall - Espai Obert d'Aprenentatge
  • Summary: This project aims to give visibility to public entities operating outside the education field that work with socially, ethnically and culturally diverse families and offer them ways of participating in educational intervention programmes. Students collaborate in family workshops and take part in a socio-educational action programme in the city of Tortosa. These workshops aim to provide mothers with the autonomy and resources they need to accompany their children in the school environment. Students assist and participate in the workshops by helping mothers with a low or average level of Catalan, since one of the difficulties faced by recently arrived families in the area is communication with their children's school. Our students provide support to leaders of the programme, participate in the design and planning of the workshops, prepare activities and materials, and lead some of the activities.

Teaching and learning languages I

  • Coordination: Francesca Segarra (francisca.segarra(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entities: Camp Clar School, Sant Pere i Sant Pau School, Rubió i Ors School, Jaume Bofill Fundation
  • Summary: The LEXCIT program aims to increase the educational success of young children by improving their reading comprehension. The key to LEXCIT 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 in music and the arts

  • Coordination: Míriam Segura Meix (miriam.segura(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: "Les Eres" School in Rasquera.
  • Summary: The "Les Eres" school in Rasquera runs a pupil cooperative as part of the educational program "Emprendre en la nostra Escola" (EME). The cooperative is aimed at infant and primary school children who, during the school year, form and manage a cooperative venture in which they manufacture products that are sold once a year during the village's annual festival. URV students assist in this undertaking by participating and collaborating in the project's various tasks. Students have the opportunity to interact with the teachers and other educational agents, acquiring skills and personal and educational use new working methods in the classroom. The process of joint work between schools and URV focus has allowed one goal (to create and maintain a cooperative school) from two different points of view and give a new dimension and potential project initiated by the school. 
  • You can listen to the experience in Radio Tortosa
  • It's available a project review at the Revista Guix

Teaching and learning of mathematics I

  • Coordination: Míriam Segura Meix (miriam.segura(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: "Les Eres" School in Rasquera.
  • Summary: The "Les Eres" school in Rasquera runs a pupil cooperative as part of the educational program "Emprendre en la nostra Escola" (EME). The cooperative is aimed at infant and primary school children who, during the school year, form and manage a cooperative venture in which they manufacture products that are sold once a year during the village's annual festival. URV students assist in this undertaking by participating and collaborating in the project's various tasks. Students have the opportunity to interact with the teachers and other educational agents, acquiring skills and personal and educational use new working methods in the classroom. The process of joint work between schools and URV focus has allowed one goal (to create and maintain a cooperative school) from two different points of view and give a new dimension and potential project initiated by the school.
  • You can listen to the experience in Radio Tortosa
  • It's available a project review at the Revista Guix

Teaching and learning languages II  - Comuni.ca't

  • Coordination: Marta Tena (marta.tena(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entities: Departament d'Ensenyament de les Terres de l'Ebre, School Assumpció de Deltebre, School Remolins, School Ferreries, School Jaume I, School Sant Àngel de Camarles, School Soriano Montagut.
  • Summary: In this course, students put into practice the knowledge they have acquired, during the first semester of their third year of study on the teaching and learning of reading comprehension and written expression. The aim is to help children in infant education acquire reading and writing skills and children in primary education to acquire greater competence in these skills.

Teaching and learning of physical education II

  • Coordination: Miriam Segura Meix (miriam.segura(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: Special Education School Sant Jordi
  • Summary: It is an immersive experience between the students of CEE Sant Jordi and the 3rd and 4th year students of Primary Education, mention Physical Education, of the Rovira i Virgili University, Terres de l'Ebre Campus. The CEE Sant Jordi provides an educational response to students, aged between 3 and 21, with a variety of special educational needs. The CEE Sant Jordi is carrying out the Inclusive Rugby Project in which all students participate and all the teaching staff. As a result of a collaboration agreement between the Provincial Government of Tarragona and the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), the students of the Primary Education Degree prepare punctually training sessions to develop with the students of the CPEE Sant Jordi a Jesús (Tortosa). This initiative launched at CPEE Sant Jordi allows the boys and girls of Sant Jordi to work on values such as solidarity, effort and teamwork and with the collaboration of future teachers to approach diversity through a sport not yet introduced in schools. It allows Primary Education students to learn about and understand diversity and develop their teaching work in an inclusive center by designing educational proposals in real learning contexts.

Cooperation Practicum

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

Final Project Degree – Children’s stories for raising awareness about autism in school

  • Coordination: Maria Cinta Guadalupe Forcadell (cinta.forcadell(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: ATEATE (Terres de l'Ebre Autism Association).
  • Summary: ATEATE is an association that conducts activities for raising awareness in schools about autism spectrum disorders. For these activities was required specific teaching materials in the academic year 2017-18. This project focuses on equality to create children's stories to help raise awareness among very young children about autism spectrum disorders in the context of diversity.

Final Project - Work on the relationship between academic performance and high abilities

  • Coordination: Ana Inés Renta Davids (anaines.renta(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: Altes Capacitats de Tarragona i Terres de l'Ebre Association - ATHENA.
  • Summary: The aim of the collaboration is to conduct research on the situation of students with high abilities. In particular, the objectives of the research are: to know the relationship between high abilities and academic performance, to identify students with high abilities and low academic performance and to analyze personal, contextual and educational aspects that influence students with high abilities and low performance. To conduct the research, questionnaires will be developed and applied to the detected students, families and teachers and / or professors. This is expected to provide reliable information for designing strategies to support these students.

Knowledge and use of a foreign language II

  • Coordination: Edward Lockhart (edwardalvar.lockhart(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: 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 present.

Musical groups

  • Coordination: Margarita Celma Tafalla (margarita.celma(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: Centre de Professors i Recursos of the 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 music

  • Coordination: Joan Francesc Vidal Arasa
  • Entity: 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
  • Entity: 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
  • Entity: 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 imprivisation

  • Coordination: Joan Francesc Vidal Arasa
  • Entity: 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 - Analysis of reference centers in Children's Rights in collaboration with UNICEF

  • Coordination: Ana lnés Renta Davids (anaines.renta(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entities: UNICEF and Mas Clariana School.
  • Summary: The aim of this work, within the framework of the APS Program, will be to collaborate with an educational center in the initial Self-Assessment process, to become a reference center in Children's Rights certified by UNICEF. . The student will act as a mediating and dynamizing agent in the collection of information requested for the presentation of the candidacy of the center. Therefore, it will have assessment tools provided by UNICEF, guides and self-assessment sheets that will be complemented by conducting group meetings with different institutional members. The information will be collected by groups of key informants: students, faculty, family, management team, administrative staff and community. It is hoped that this process of gathering information and preparing the application will be a participatory process in which the voices of all members of the educational community are integrated, which allows to obtain an image of the starting point of the center, as well. how to consolidate better proposals into an action plan.

Final Degree Project - Didactic programming for the revaluation of the jota in Primary Education

  • Coordination: Margarita Celma Tafalla (margarita.celma(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: Centre d'Interpretació de la Jota in Terres de l'Ebre.
  • Summary: The jota, both sung and danced, is one of the representative and identifying elements of the traditional and popular culture of the Terres de I'Ebre. One of the projects that has promoted the recovery, revaluation and dissemination of the jota has been the Terres de I'E Jota Interpretation Center (CIJTE) in Tortosa. This interpretation center does not have material adapted for children, despite having done singing, dancing and training workshops in schools in the area. The student adapts the content and materials of the interpretation center for 5th grade students and designs educational activities. He also prepared a blog open to everyone, to disseminate the contents of the work. In this way, it will be possible to make didactic visits combining practical and theoretical learning with an interactive, playful methodology and working, in this case, with schools in Tortosa.

Final Degree Project - Creating children's stories to raise awareness about autism in schools

  • Coordination: Maria Cinta Guadalupe Forcadell Vericat (cinta.forcadell(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Entity: Autisme Terres de l'Ebre Association - ATEATE
  • Summary: The association carries out awareness-raising activities in schools about autism spectrum disorders. It is necessary to have specific didactic material in order to work on this topic.
    Write stories aimed at children and primary education with the aim of raising awareness about autism from an early age.