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Facilitating Active Citizenship in Students Through the Strengthening of University-Community Partnerships

Facilitating Active Citizenship in Students Through the Strengthening of University-Community Partnerships
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Author(s): Rika Swanzen (Monash South Africa, South Africa)and Victoria L. Graham (Monash South Africa, South Africa)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 30
Source title: Civic Engagement and Politics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7669-3.ch045

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Abstract

In South Africa, the integration of community engagement into research and teaching roles is mandated through policy guidelines, which created the need for transformation of Higher Education (HE) since the late 1990s. One approach that allows such integration is service-learning and this approach is the focus of a research study conducted with field supervisors to determine the level of reciprocal engagement experienced by them. Communication plays a strong role in authentic university-community partnerships (UCPs) and Monash South Africa is cognisant of the challenges encountered with regard to diversity during placements or internships, some of which were discovered through the study. The ultimate aim of the chapter is to offer some recommendations for having a student-engaged and community-focused curriculum with reflections on its internationality and inter-disciplinary impact.

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