Profiguration and Service Learning in Higher Education: critical perspectives from intergenerational interdependence

This article presents the theoretical (and applied) development of a concept: Profiguration. It is a sample of how Service Learning (SL) promotes new lines of research and induces a symbiosis with teaching. Through Profiguration, Service Learning helps to focus on introspective spaces of society and...

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Autor: Molina-Luque, Fidel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
Repositorio:Repositori Obert UdL
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/464391
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.36253/form-14678
https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/464391
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Profiguration
Service-Learning
Profigurative Socialization
Inclusive Intergenerational Education
Intergenerational Social Contract
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Sumario:This article presents the theoretical (and applied) development of a concept: Profiguration. It is a sample of how Service Learning (SL) promotes new lines of research and induces a symbiosis with teaching. Through Profiguration, Service Learning helps to focus on introspective spaces of society and research, opening the university to society for its improvement. We propose that universities be Profigurative Centers for Intergenerational Training (Age Friendly University) that incorporate the idea and practice of the importance of intergenerational relationships in a society that sometimes seems to be crossed by generational gap. Our university SL proposal incorporates several practices and profigurative action programs in teaching, research, and transfer. It is a sociological proposal that opens educational centers to the real needs of the community and generates in teachers and researchers, transformations in the way of producing knowledge, relating formative theory and reflective practice.