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

by Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030347307
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/17/2019
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

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.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“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