Socio-cultural animation and community development and education for development: an innovative experience in higher education

Abstract

The newEuropean Space of Higher Education (ESHE) has implied an adaptation in the methods of the teaching and learning process, passing from an educational model based on teaching to a model based on learning. Thus, facultymoves to the background and the main role falls on the student body (Taboada, Touriño and Doallo, 2010). This article is centered on a conciliatory experience (also novel in our faculty) of linking three related disciplines in the classroom: sociocultural animation, community development and education for development. All of this is framed in a participative methodology, developing the competency of teamwork and thus giving students a featuring role. This experience is developed in the course “Educational strategies for sociocultural animation and community development,” in the second term of the Degree in Social Education in the 2011/2012 academic course in the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.