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

By Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030347303
• ISBN13: 9783030347307
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"