Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning

The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-34730-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

This book establishes community engagement and service-learning as pathways to advancing human development and common good. Using the human development and capability approach as normative frameworks, with South Africa as a frame of reference, the author investigates the theoretical contributions and ultimate benefits of university-community partnerships. In doing so, this book demonstrates that three interrelated capabilities – affiliation, common good professionals and local citizenship – are developed through community engagement and service-learning. Subsequently, the notion of transformative change through community engagement and service-learning is illuminated, particularly when operating within the context of power differentials, inequality and extreme poverty. This book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of service-learning, and its implications for partnerships between universities and external communities.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mtawa, Ntimi Nikusuma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Community engagement in higher education: A general overview.- Chapter 2. Community engagement and service-learning in Africa and South African higher education: A question of relevance. A historical and current sketch.- Chapter 3. Human development and the capability approach: Alternative frameworks for community engagement and service-learning.- Chapter 4. Human development processes and values: Community engagement and service-learning spaces.- Chapter 5. Affiliation: The architectonic and capability frameworks in community engagement and service-learning.- Chapter 6. Common good professionals and citizenship capabilities: Community engagement and service-learning approach.- Chapter 7. Transformative change and partial justice: Community engagement possibilities and limitations.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Human development and the common good-community engagement and service-learning: Implications for higher education

Über Autor(innen)

Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His research interests focus on higher education and human development, university-community partnerships, and common good.