Human Development and Community Engagement Through Service-Learning: The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030347277)

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.

Author: Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa
ISBN-10: 3030347273
ISBN-13: 9783030347277
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2020
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d