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

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.