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The Impact of Service Learning on Academic, Professional and Physical Wellbeing Competences of EFL Teacher Education Students
In response to the challenges of the 21st century, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been committed to the development of a training model that focuses on the acquisition of cognitive, physical, and social competences, among others, rather than the mere acquisition of knowledge. This app...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10048890/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36981760 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064852 |
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author | Hooli, Eeva-Maria Corral-Robles, Silvia Ortega-Martín, José Luis Baena-Extremera, Antonio Ruiz-Montero, Pedro Jesús |
author_facet | Hooli, Eeva-Maria Corral-Robles, Silvia Ortega-Martín, José Luis Baena-Extremera, Antonio Ruiz-Montero, Pedro Jesús |
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description | In response to the challenges of the 21st century, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been committed to the development of a training model that focuses on the acquisition of cognitive, physical, and social competences, among others, rather than the mere acquisition of knowledge. This approach has gained momentum in recent years, where the learners are the protagonists of their own learning process. This change of approach requires a change in methodology and involves a renewal of the methodological approach in Spanish universities. Service learning (S-L) is an active methodology that is gaining ground across universities due to its experiential, community-based and reflective characteristics. The present study aimed to provide an overview of the impact of S-L by active programs (physical activities, movement games, active tasks, etc.) on the acquisition of professional, linguistic, pedagogical or intercultural competencies, as well as physical wellbeing skills, on English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education students. Fourteen Spanish EFL university students carried out an S-L active intervention with a migrant group from the Migrant Temporary Stay Centre in the autonomous city of Melilla (Spain). A qualitative study was designed to evaluate the achievement of these competencies. The results show that even though S-L is a challenging methodology, it favours the development of academic, professional, and physical wellbeing competences to succeed in a competitive and changing world, as well as the improvement of the participant students. |
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spelling | pubmed-100488902023-03-29 The Impact of Service Learning on Academic, Professional and Physical Wellbeing Competences of EFL Teacher Education Students Hooli, Eeva-Maria Corral-Robles, Silvia Ortega-Martín, José Luis Baena-Extremera, Antonio Ruiz-Montero, Pedro Jesús Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In response to the challenges of the 21st century, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been committed to the development of a training model that focuses on the acquisition of cognitive, physical, and social competences, among others, rather than the mere acquisition of knowledge. This approach has gained momentum in recent years, where the learners are the protagonists of their own learning process. This change of approach requires a change in methodology and involves a renewal of the methodological approach in Spanish universities. Service learning (S-L) is an active methodology that is gaining ground across universities due to its experiential, community-based and reflective characteristics. The present study aimed to provide an overview of the impact of S-L by active programs (physical activities, movement games, active tasks, etc.) on the acquisition of professional, linguistic, pedagogical or intercultural competencies, as well as physical wellbeing skills, on English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education students. Fourteen Spanish EFL university students carried out an S-L active intervention with a migrant group from the Migrant Temporary Stay Centre in the autonomous city of Melilla (Spain). A qualitative study was designed to evaluate the achievement of these competencies. The results show that even though S-L is a challenging methodology, it favours the development of academic, professional, and physical wellbeing competences to succeed in a competitive and changing world, as well as the improvement of the participant students. MDPI 2023-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10048890/ /pubmed/36981760 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064852 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hooli, Eeva-Maria Corral-Robles, Silvia Ortega-Martín, José Luis Baena-Extremera, Antonio Ruiz-Montero, Pedro Jesús The Impact of Service Learning on Academic, Professional and Physical Wellbeing Competences of EFL Teacher Education Students |
title | The Impact of Service Learning on Academic, Professional and Physical Wellbeing Competences of EFL Teacher Education Students |
title_full | The Impact of Service Learning on Academic, Professional and Physical Wellbeing Competences of EFL Teacher Education Students |
title_fullStr | The Impact of Service Learning on Academic, Professional and Physical Wellbeing Competences of EFL Teacher Education Students |
title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of Service Learning on Academic, Professional and Physical Wellbeing Competences of EFL Teacher Education Students |
title_short | The Impact of Service Learning on Academic, Professional and Physical Wellbeing Competences of EFL Teacher Education Students |
title_sort | impact of service learning on academic, professional and physical wellbeing competences of efl teacher education students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10048890/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36981760 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064852 |
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