El Aprendizaje Servicio es una metodología que combina en una sola actividad, el aprendizaje de contenidos, competencias y valores con la realización de tareas de servicio a la comunidad. El aprendizaje servicio parte de la idea que la ayuda mutua es un mecanismo de progreso personal, económico y social y que favorece el aprendizaje y el crecimiento personal. Propone analizar qué puede aportar el aprendizaje servicio a la disciplina de la educación física y como ésta puede concretar sus aportaciones sociales y comunitarias en los proyectos de aprendizaje servicio. Se presentan, además, un conjunto de experiencias muy diversas, en diversos ámbitos y en distintas etapas educativas que permiten visualizar concreciones reales y destacar este valor añadido, cuando se encuentran el aprendizaje servicio y la educación física. Dirigida a profesionales de la Educación Física, psicólogos, pedagogos y educadores en general. Todos ellos pueden encontrar útiles las propuestas que aquí se expone.

During the past decades, the scientific discipline of Sports Didactics has developed in a heterogenous manner across national borders and individual university locations in Europe. Its position and situatedness has been characterised by its relation to and differentiation from Sports Pedagogy and other sub-disciplines within sports and educational sciences. The significance of Sports Didactics remains closely connected to the role of the school subject Physical Education as well as Physical Education Teacher Education at universities and colleges. This collected volume provides an overview of the subject understandings, theory landscapes, research contexts and practice models across 24 European countries along five lines of investigation: national historical developments of Sports Didactics, main trends and tendencies of theoretical differentiation, application fields of research and theory formation, recent research perspectives and possible future developments.

The study and application of service learning as a pedagogy has become widespread. Service-Learning in Physical Education and Other Related Professions: A Global Perspective demonstrates how faculty in physical education and other related professions have designed, implemented, assessed, and conducted action research involving service-learning as a teaching and learning method, both locally and globally, as a means of both serving the community and enriching the lives of their students. This text is broken down into three parts: •Part I provides a definition of service learning, examines the parameters that have been explored in physical education and higher education in general, and the integration of standards to ensure high-quality service-learning. •Part II focuses on the pedagogical frameworks in which service-learning thrives and explores how the model specifically meets national standards and best practices. It also explores the emerging role of research as a measurement tool of the effectiveness of service learning. •Part III explores a variety of programs from around the globe that utilize service-learning in their pedagogical framework, and provides the nuts and bolts of what they have done and their accomplishments.