VIRTUAL: Learning. Life. Work.
Abstract
Service Learning, an approach combining formal learning with community service, has recently developed into Teaching-Learning theories and practices. The method of Service Learning is challenging in contemporary increasingly complex learning contexts, in which biographical trajectories are plural and marked by intricate variables. Starting from this awareness, we propose an insight into the worth of SL with respect to a particular population, the female one, which presents an existential trajectory characterized by a migratory history. The experience we are going to investigate has as its protagonists some university students of the Degree Course in Educational Sciences (Università Cattolica – Brescia). They have been engaged in a literacy course for foreign women. This literacy experience had a generative impact on the stories of these young women and made it possible to enhance the role of women with respect to the improvement of change processes.
Monica Amadini is Full Professor of Education – Faculty of Education, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy). She is Coordinator of the degree course Sciences of education and training processes, campus of Brescia. Since 2021 she is Director of the Research Center on Family and Childhood education (CeSPeFI) e since 2019 member of the Scientific Board of UNESCO Chair on “Education for Human Development and Solidarity among Peoples”. She is Director of the Scientific Series Childhood education – Editrice Scholé and she is member of scientific board of various scientific journals.