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

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This chapter uses the voices of the university’s leaders, staff, students and external communities to explicate the meanings, embeddedness, applications and experiences of human development processes and values such as empowerment, participation and sustainability in and through community engagement and service-learning. While showing multiple interpretations of the processes and values of human development, it also indicates the difficulties of foregrounding and implementing them in community engagement and service-learning imbued with power and preference differentials and inequality. The chapter therefore questions the notion of partnership that often assumes that all partners enjoy equal power and participate on an equal footing in the design, implementation and evaluation of community engagement and service-learning.

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Mtawa, N.N. (2019). Human Development Processes and Values: Community Engagement and Service-Learning Spaces. In: Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34728-4_4

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