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ALVARADO CANTERO, Lucía. Learning as A transforming process: An Experience of Community Outreach. Comunicación [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.1, pp.14-31. ISSN 1659-3820.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18845/rc.v26i1-17.3320.

Learning as A transforming process: An Experience of Community Outreach

The teachers of Spanish as a mother tongue or a second language has the opportunity -and the responsibility- to commit themselves with their own learning, their students and with society in order to turn the pedagogical experience into a process which not only seeks achievement at the academic level but also the social transformation through the exposure to situations, texts and people that allow them to become more sensitive to students and stimulate them to become agents of change. The research which originated this article departs from the notion of teachers as social transformers (Dewey, 1938; Freire, 2012, 2015; Giroux, 1988; Grundy, 1987; Kumaravadivelu, 2003) and the principles of Social Learning (ApS) and Community-Based Learnin (ABC) (Bringle and Hatcher, 1996; Puig, 2015; Mooney and Edwards, 2001; Rodríguez, 2014; Naval, García, Puig and Santos, 2011; Barreneche and Ramos, 2013; Ebacher, 2013; Escofet, Folgueiras, Luna and Palou, 2016). The paper measured the perception of 66 ELE students in relation to two variables: improvement of their language skills and the sensitivity to vulnerable populations, after taking a class in which 20% of teaching hours was devoted to the design and execution of community projects. The results that were obtained are satisfactory and allow the setting of challenges for the teaching of languages and education in general.

Palavras-chave : Service Learning; Community-based Learning. Conversation and contact with the community; teachers as transforming Educators; education as an agent of social change; Spanish as a foreign language; Spanish as a second language.

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