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

✍ Scribed by Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Community Engagement and Service-Learning in Higher Education: A General Overview (Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa)....Pages 1-53
Community Engagement and Service-Learning in African and South African Higher Education: A Question of Relevance—A Historical and Current Sketch (Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa)....Pages 55-77
Human Development and Capability Approach: Alternative Conceptual Frameworks for Community Engagement and Service-Learning (Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa)....Pages 79-111
Human Development Processes and Values: Community Engagement and Service-Learning Spaces (Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa)....Pages 113-146
Affiliation: The Architectonic Capability in Community Engagement and Service-Learning (Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa)....Pages 147-184
Common Good Professionals and Citizenship Capabilities: Community Engagement and Service-Learning Approaches (Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa)....Pages 185-222
Transformative Change and Partial Justice: Community Engagement and Service-Learning—Possibilities and Limitations (Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa)....Pages 223-239
Conclusion: Human Development and the Common Good—Implications for Higher Education, Community Engagement and Service-Learning (Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa)....Pages 241-255
Back Matter ....Pages 257-263

✦ Subjects

Education; Higher Education; Educational Philosophy; Philosophy of Education; Social Work and Community Development