Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Mtawa, Ntimi Nikusuma (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Higher education.; Education-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Social service.; Higher Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Social Work and Community Development.

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 an...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Community engagement in higher education: A general overview
• Chapter 2. Community engagement and service-learning in Africa and South African higher education: A question of relevance. A historical and current sketch
• Chapter 3. Human development and the capability approach: Alternative frameworks for community engagement and service-learning
• Chapter 4. Human development processes and values: Community engagement and service-learning spaces
• Chapter 5. Affiliation: The architectonic and capability frameworks in community engagement and service-learning
• Chapter 6. Common good professionals and citizenship capabilities: Community engagement and service-learning approach
• Chapter 7. Transformative change and partial justice: Community engagement possibilities and limitations
• Chapter 8. Conclusion: Human development and the common good-community engagement and service-learning: Implications for higher education.