Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning: The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education - Hardcover

Mtawa, Ntimi Nikusuma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030347273 ISBN 13: 9783030347277

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

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.  

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About the Author

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.  

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030347273
• ISBN 13: 9783030347277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282