About 90 students from the School of Education and Psychology of the University of Navarra attended last Monday, October 24, to a session given by the professor of the University of Zaragoza, Pilar Arranz Martínez, in the Parliament of Navarra, which took place at degree scroll: "Service-learning and attention to diversity: an opportunity to change attitudes".

The professor began by defining the concept of Service-Learning, while emphasizing the idea that it is a "service to the community: this is understood to be based on the detection of a real need". The speaker continued by explaining the characteristics and organizational principles when talking about attention to diversity.

At this point, Arranz reflected on the influence that the attitudes of those who are going to provide that service have on the groups in which a need is detected. "Attitudes are consequences of our environment educational. We have a field of representation that is given by our biography, what we have lived in our experiences". This field, together with the information we have about the group with which we are going to work (which is sometimes objective and, at other times, is shaped by assumed beliefs), gives rise to an attitude. It will be necessary to analyze the components that form it (cognitive, emotional and conative characteristics) in order to form an attitude of respect and partnership with the groups with whom we work in service-learning.

"Throughout the project, the attitude will change. We would not be able to change these attitudes in the same way as we do with a Service-Learning project " - specified the teacher. Then, she insisted to student body: "Service-Learning is an excellent opportunity to promote inclusive attitudes, respect, partnership... it would be a privilege to develop a project of this subject". He added: "Service-learning has two beneficiaries: the one who receives the service and the one who provides it".

The goal of the conference of Civic Parliamentan initiative launched in 2010 by the Parliament of Navarre and the academic center, is to explain what characterizes an adequate Education for communication and social service (for social action), what motivates it and to collaborate in its creation. The axes on which it is based are social action; knowledge, attitudes and social and civic skills; and the role played by the family, the school, the university and the media.