Programa Nacional Educación Solidaria Ministerio de Educación, Argentina and Founder and Academic Director of Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario (CLAYSS), the Latin American Center for Service-Learning, South America | |
Biography Prof. María Nieves Tapia is director of the new Argentina National Service-learning Program, “Educación Solidaria”, assisting more than 5,000 schools and 400 Higher Education institutions doing service projects. She is also Founder and Academic Director of Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario (CLAYSS), the Latin American Center for Service-learning.
In 1991 she was appointed Chief of Advisors at the National Institute for Youth, where she was responsible of the first Presidential Project on Conscientious Objection and Substitutive Social Youth Service. In 1994 she began to work in the Social Sciences Curriculum area at the Ministry of Education. From 1997 to 2001, she designed and directed the first Service Learning Program in the country. After the 2001 political crisis, she founded CLAYSS, Latin American Center for Service-learning.
Tapia has been publishing articles on Youth and Service since 1984 including: “La solidaridad como pedagogía. El aprendizaje-servicio en Argentina y en el mundo” (Buenos Aires, 2000); and “Aprendizaje y servicio solidario” (Madrid, 2004). |
