Co-Creation, Reflection, and Transformation : The Social Impact of a Service-Learning Course at the University of Szeged

Juhász, Judit and Málovics, György and Bajmócy, Zoltán (2021) Co-Creation, Reflection, and Transformation : The Social Impact of a Service-Learning Course at the University of Szeged. VEZETÉSTUDOMÁNY, 52 (7). pp. 6-17. ISSN 0133-0179

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Abstract

This paper highlights three aspirations, which are shared by the diverse concepts and practices of responsible research and innovation (RRI): co-creation, reflexivity, and transformation. The authors analyse a service-learning (SL) initiative at the University of Szeged, Hungary, based on the model by Chupp and Joseph (2010). This provides a typology of SL practices and identifies four main approaches to the social impact of SL: traditional, critical, social justice oriented, and an institutional change-focused approach. The authors also use this model to analyse the effects of their initiative with regard to the RRI principles of co-creation, reflexivity, and transformation. They provide evidence that their SL course may reach beyond its traditional (student-learning-based) effects in the Hungarian context, and embrace social justice and critical approaches. While the authors also found certain instances of institutionalisation, embedding critical SL into a Hungarian university and inducing significant institutional transformation seems to be a long way away.

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