Organised by the Provincial Solidarity Team, within the framework of our Marist Mission, the Meeting on the active pedagogy of ‘Service-Learning in Solidarity’ took place on 7 February in the city of La Plata (Argentina), marking the start of the new academic year.
In the form of a workshop, the attendees, in addition to continuing to advance in their training, were able to begin to build links and potential synergies for joint work based on the planning of socio-community projects.
They also reflected on the role of the Marist educational centres in the construction of a culture of peace, transformative solidarity and encounter.
The Workshop gave them the opportunity to share some of the experiences of Solidarity Service Learning carried out in the Marist Centres and in other institutions worldwide, motivating them to rethink their own projects and ask themselves: How can we include this pedagogy in the learning experiences and trajectories of our children and adolescents? What steps should we take? From what perspectives?
From this starting point, they were encouraged to think of concrete actions to begin developing the first projects integrated into their own workshops and/or curricular spaces, proactively joining in each action of the process of Reimagining Education in which all of us Marists are committed to the pursuit of a true educational and social transformation.
Isabel Tresca – Coordinator of the Solidarity Animation Team and Liliana Ferreirós – Provincial Communication Cruz del Sur