How service learning can be a way to promote civic responsibility

The University of Verona is characterized by long-standing experimentation of the service learning approach, which, within the Master’s Degree in Primary School Education, has taken on the specific connotation of Community Research Service Learning. The studies carried out to identify the added value and the critical issue of this program stress the presence of several advantages. This paper aims at exploring, in particular, its impact in terms of civic skills. The results of the phenomenological analysis highlight the relevance of the service perspective and the collaborative dimension. These elements are functional both to optimize the program and design the application of CRSL in the economic field where stakeholders and students can collaborate to critically respond to the contexts’ real needs