Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning
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
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Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning “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
Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa
Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education
Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa
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To Almighty God To my dad Nikusuma Mtawa and mom Bumi Lwinga To my beloved wife Jaqueline Mgombawatu For Hailey_Tamara and Heather_Tamia—may you grow with a strong sense of humanity
Foreword
eyond the Normative Order in African Higher B Education Studies As I read through the pages of Ntimi’s long-awaited book, I was constantly reminded of the
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