Proyectos de aprendizaje- servicio (ApS) a través de una plataforma web para la mejor adquisición de competencias en el grado en Bellas Artes

Abstract

Service Learning (S-L) methodology advances slowly but inexorably towards its institutionalization among the different areas within higher education in Spain. This teaching-learning methodology has been shown to be efficient and advantageous for teachers, students and non-profit institutions, standing out by its efficiency in improving the acquisition of capabilities by students. Applying S-L in the field of the arts, and more specifically in higher studies of fine arts, can be extremely positive for students and, accordingly, within this thesis a pilot test was carried out taking a subject of the 4th year of the Degree in Fine Arts of the University of Murcia (UMU), during the 2016/17 and 2017/18 academic years. The general objectives of this work can be summarized as: i) to carry out a study on skill acquisition through S-L methodology in higher education in Spain; ii) to understand the development of S-L in the subject 'Concept, thought and discourse of art' of the Degree of Fine Arts of the UMU; and iii) to design, plan and develop a virtual platform that facilitates the implementation and integration of S-L in the studies of the Degree in Fine Arts of the UMU. Subsequently, it is proposed to describe the characteristics of the S-L experiences developed by the students of the Degree of Fine Arts of the UMU, as well as to carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis on these mentioned experiences. The quantitative study was carried out through a pretest-posttest, trying to cover the objective of analyzing the results on the acquisition of capabilities by the students participating in the S-L experiences. The objective of knowing the perception that the students participating in the projects had on this S-L experience was achieved through a qualitative study which consisted of a survey after the S-L practice. The results obtained indicated that S-L is an ideal methodology to be developed in fine arts studies, and that practices with this methodology have had a great acceptance among the students. Our results on the study carried out on the subject 'Concept, thought and discourse of art' of the Degree of Fine Arts of the UMU, allowed to conclude that S-L practices are beneficial for the students in terms of the acquisition of capabilities, and that most of them express their intention to repeat the experience. Finally, a web platform has been created for the management of S-L practices, although it did not have a strong impact on this work due to the incomplete institutionalization of S-L and the lack of more and better material resources for its creation.