Una experiencia de aprendizaje servicio interciclo: Relaciones interorganizacionales y orientación de carrera

This service learning collaboration combines community service with academic learning. With that purpose, a collaboration network was created between the University of Valencia and Escola Gavina, a preschool, primary and secondary school. The objective was twofold, first, it attempts to give postgraduate students the opportunity to carry out a diagnostic of the inter-organizational relations of Escola Gavina. This objective is pursued through collaboration between different entities, which is one of the basis of service learning. Inter-organizational relationships are crucial in today’s society, they are becoming more frequent, and allow some organizations to achieve objectives that would not otherwise be possible. Second, it allows to provide academic and professional orientation to students of secondary school, while stimulating the development of linguistic competences, autonomy, and social interaction. Twenty students from the master's degree and twenty-seven from secondary school participated in the study. The learning process, their self-perceived competence acquisition, and their degree of satisfaction were assessed. In general, the results showed that this collaboration between students from different educational cicles achieved the intendeed objectives.