Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning

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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.  


Analyses the contributions and benefits of university-community partnerships, particularly within challenging contexts Highlights and interrogates the notion of transformative change within education Utilises the human development and capability approach as frameworks to explore understandings for service learning

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Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa

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Service Learning Capability approach Amartya Sen Human Development and Service Learning Capabilities and service learning

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“Readers of Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning will be treated to an extensive review of engaged teaching and engaged research.  The Human Development lens emphasizes the centrality of growth toward the common good through community voice, partnerships that have integrity, co-production of knowledge, solidarity and respect, and mutual benefits. The policies and practices of community engagement and service learning are critically examined as means toward developing capacities in all persons in ways that promote social justice and empowerment.”—Robert G. Bringle, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus in Psychology and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

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