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Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning

The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education

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  1. Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa

    1. University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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  • Analyses the contributions and benefits of university-community partnerships, particularly within challenging contexts
  • Highlights and interrogates the notion of transformative change within education
  • Utilises the human development and capability approach as frameworks to explore understandings for service learning

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Community Engagement and Service-Learning in Higher Education: A General Overview

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    Pages 1-53

  3. Community Engagement and Service-Learning in African and South African Higher Education: A Question of Relevance—A Historical and Current Sketch

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    Pages 55-77

  4. Human Development and Capability Approach: Alternative Conceptual Frameworks for Community Engagement and Service-Learning

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    Pages 79-111

  5. Human Development Processes and Values: Community Engagement and Service-Learning Spaces

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    Pages 113-146

  6. Affiliation: The Architectonic Capability in Community Engagement and Service-Learning

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    Pages 147-184

  7. Common Good Professionals and Citizenship Capabilities: Community Engagement and Service-Learning Approaches

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    Pages 185-222

  8. Transformative Change and Partial Justice: Community Engagement and Service-Learning—Possibilities and Limitations

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    Pages 223-239

  9. Conclusion: Human Development and the Common Good—Implications for Higher Education, Community Engagement and Service-Learning

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    Pages 241-255

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 257-263
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About this book

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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​“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


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

    Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa

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.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning

  • Book Subtitle: The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education

  • Authors: Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34728-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34727-7Published: 07 February 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34730-7Published: 07 February 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34728-4Published: 16 December 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 263

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Social Work and Community Development

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