Aprendizaje - Servicio y Creación de Liderazgo para una Cultura de Paz

Abstract

The research "Service learning and leadership creation for a culture of peace" developed in the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Ambato, represents a lack of knowledge about the methodology studied in the research or known only as a voluntary activity in favor of society as an alternative way to cover in a certain sense the needs of society based on a culture of peace. Among the proposed objectives, the general objective seeks to determine the influence that exists between the variables of study, in the same way in the specific objectives a compilation and analysis of the academic contents of its variables is carried out, giving to know in a wide way the dimensions and indicators that intervene in each variable and in this way to be able to construct an instrument with which the influence and relation that exists between the thematic of study can be measured. The research is developed in a descriptive and exploratory way with a quantitative methodology that is based on the application of an instrument according to the research being that it was submitted to an evaluation of professionals in Social Work, Psychology and Mediation, which once approved was applied to 179 students of the last levels of the careers of Social Work, Law and Social Communication, which was the result of the respective calculation to obtain the sample. Among the main results there is evidence of the influence between the service learning variable and the leadership creation variable for a culture of peace, a result that was obtained by the statistical calculation of the chi-square and the theoretical analysis that was carried out.