Introduction 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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Mtawa, N. N. (2019). Human development and community engagement through service-learning: The capability approach and public good in education. Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning: The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education (pp. 1–263). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34728-4
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