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REVIEW article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Digital Learning Innovations
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1501899
This article is part of the Research Topic Interactions and Intersections in Education: Challenges and Trends to foster Learning and Wellbeing View all 4 articles

COMPANY-UNIVERSITY INTERSECTIONS THROUGH SERVICE-LEARNING (SL). A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Provisionally accepted
Margarita R. Rodríguez-Gallego Margarita R. Rodríguez-Gallego 1*Rosario Ordoñez-Sierra Rosario Ordoñez-Sierra 1*Soledad Domene-Martos Soledad Domene-Martos 1*Cristina De Cecilia Rodríguez Cristina De Cecilia Rodríguez 2*
  • 1 Sevilla University, Seville, Spain
  • 2 Community Manager of educational centres, Sevilla, Spain

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    The most relevant intersections in society include the relationship between universities and companies for a projection toward the sustainable employability of future graduates. Among the possible intersections, Service-Learning (SL) is an educational proposition that may help university students to develop their personal skills, offering them opportunities to learn and practice civic commitment, improving their sense of social and citizen responsibility, and combining academic and community-service learning in a constructed programme where participants train by working on real needs of the environment to optimise and transform the latter. The development of SL programmes in university departments related to technical areas is posing a challenge to faculty members and students, thus it is important to explore this lack of programmes. The main aim of the present study was to identify SL projects and their topics through a systematic review, following the guidelines of the «Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses» (PRISMA) declaration in the knowledge areas of Architecture, Computer Science, Environmental Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Languages and Systems, from the year 2008 to the year 2023. This review includes 128 articles, which were analysed with ATLAS. Ti 22. The categorical system employed in this work emerged from the topics of the programmes identified in the selected articles, which were verified by experts in the mentioned fields of knowledge. The agreed categories were: accessibility, learning, social groups, courses, devices, infrastructure, games, environment, landscaping, heritage, software and web. The most relevant conclusions highlight that most of the articles refer to theoretical aspects of SL, showing a lack of data on the practical development of SL programmes and their impact on employability. The largest number of SL programmes are developed in the areas of Architecture, Computer Science and Software Engineering.Regarding the topics that are addressed in research, most of the articles refer to social groups, software, learning and accessibility.

    Keywords: Higher Education,, service-learning, Engineering, architecture, employability

    Received: 25 Sep 2024; Accepted: 25 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Rodríguez-Gallego, Ordoñez-Sierra, Domene-Martos and De Cecilia Rodríguez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Margarita R. Rodríguez-Gallego, Sevilla University, Seville, Spain
    Rosario Ordoñez-Sierra, Sevilla University, Seville, Spain
    Soledad Domene-Martos, Sevilla University, Seville, Spain
    Cristina De Cecilia Rodríguez, Community Manager of educational centres, Sevilla, Spain

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