“Imparare a servire”: le potenzialità trasformative del service learning nella formazione degli insegnanti

Service Learning – a field experience based on civic engagement – is long affirmed as a training methodology for teachers and prospective teachers. Many researches show the impact of Service Learning on several dimensions such as professional identity, awareness of diversity and difference, didactic efficacy and pluralization, cross-cutting soft skills and theory-practice connection. But Service Learning mobilizes more than single competences: it involves tranformative “learning to serve”. Such learning needs to be sustained by quality practices: reflective settings, narrative inquiry, student voice. Other aspects that are typical of Service Learning, such as civic engagement and community building, will become more and more central in the future.