University and Service Learning in promoting citizenship and inclusion: experience reports on educational intervention in a sports context

Abstract

Located in the field of Education Sciences, this study aims to explore the potential of service learning as a strategy linking the University to the community(ies). Consultancy and mediation are considered tools for educational intervention. They promote spaces for citizenship and inclusion in/by menas of sport. The three reports of experience produced by Master students in the curricular unit Educational Intervention Methodologies show that the projects developed are different in the heterogeneity of contexts, resources and strategies they use, but they are uniform in what concerns the stages of community intervention. Hence they contribute to increase citizenship, social inclusion and the empowerment of the stakeholders. The intersection of education sciences in sport contexts enhances citizen participation and the involvement of athletes and sport club managers, as actors with social responsibility and community agents engaged in a dynamic of change and social inclusion.