Fundamentals
This section provides theoretical guidelines necessary to know and understand when we talk about reflection. You will find conceptual guidelines, benefits and also evidence of how reflection is essential in Service Learning and contributes to enhance meaningful learning in students.
Benefits and opportunities
The challenge of doing reflection activities in R&S courses and generating a strategy is that the students ask themselves the right questions, those that allow them to problematize their experience and, in turn, put their thoughts into words, order them and materialize them. This gives way to an intellectual understanding of the activities carried out during the implementation of the R&S project (Brockbank & McGill, 2002).
Evidence
Reflective processes have been shown to be effective in promoting meaningful learning by enabling students to relate new learning to that which is already established in their cognitive structure (Ausubel, 2003). Therefore, reflection is understood as the basis for the updating of knowledge.
Quality reflection
A reflection oriented to strengthen learning must be intentional and planned, in this section we mention some criteria that you should consider if you want to make a quality reflection.
Superior skills
In a globalized context where societies are increasingly complex and the socio-environmental crisis can no longer be ignored, it is necessary to train professionals with the skills to face and adapt to new challenges. Critical, socially committed people, who are able to collaborate and communicate interdisciplinarily to propose solutions to complex problems in a creative and effective way.