Community engagement research in South Africa : histories, methods, theories and practice
Title:
Community engagement research in South Africa : histories, methods, theories and practice
Author:
Van Eeden, E. S. (Elize S.), editor.
ISBN:
9780627037931
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 521 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Section A: Science in (and) community and (in) research -- Thoughts from academia -- Science for society: the practice of community engagement -- Chapter 1: Mirroring 25 years of community engagement research and practice in South Africa -- Section B: Theories in community engagement and other modes of participatory collaboration -- Thoughts from academia -- Research and service-learning for the enhancement of pre-service teachers and communities -- Chapter 2: Understanding the gemeinschaft in student-led community engagement in higher education -- Chapter 3: Service-learning as a "boundary practice" in higher education: an activity theory lens -- Chapter 4: University engagement practitioners on the challenges and benefits of higher education engagement and its institutionalisation -- Chapter 5: Collaboration embedded in service-learning through the lenses of a network of activity systems and a Change Laboratory -- Section C: Methods of community engagement: indigenous community health care and wellbeing -- Thoughts from academia -- Community centric curriculum: an engaged curriculum approach to student teaching and learning -- Chapter 6: Reflections on the process of ethical co-creation of knowledge with community partners: lessons learnt -- Chapter 7: Affordances of indigenous knowledge systems for community engagement by educational institutions in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Observing freedoms and unfreedoms in rural and urban communities: challenges to leading a life people have reason to value -- Chapter 9: International collaboration in community intervention programmes: developments and challenges -- Section D: Methods of community engagement: rural and urban contexts -- Thoughts from academia -- Inclusive and collaborative community research: Ndumo, KwaZulu-Natal -- Chapter 10: Inclusive community engagement studies: sharing moments of integrative multidisciplinary research in the Far West Rand region -- Chapter 11: Building strong educational pathways from early childhood development to tertiary education: a case study of Mamelodi township -- Chapter 12: Benefits of community engagement practice in the context of higher education and rural school partnership: multiperspective voices -- Chapter 13: On the researcher-researched relationship in educational psychological research with vulnerable populations -- Chapter 14: Engagement with mining-affected communities: lessons learnt: a case study within the West Rand Goldfields -- Chapter 15: Engaging with complexity: wicked problems in a southern context -- Section E: Science for society: the practice of community engagement -- Thoughts from academia -- Community engagement in higher education and training in the future: from theory to practice -- Chapter 16: Moving community engagement in South Africa from rhetoric to reality through engaged scholarship -- Chapter 17: The relevance of social responsibility in empowering students with required Fourth Industrial Revolution power skills through a service-learning module -- Chapter 18: Strength-based activities in community intervention: an example of a restorative justice programme in a South African female correctional centre -- Chapter 19: Towards a live project framework for community engagement in South Africa: an architectural education perspective -- Chapter 20: The transformative pedagogical potential of pre-service teacher professional learning communities embedded in a mathematics service-learning course -- Chapter 21: Valuing the world café in a South African context -- Chapter 22: Conducting fieldwork in South African communities: challenges and best practices -- Chapter 23: Studying processes and experiences: ethnographic tools for experiential field research in communities -- Chapter 24: Towards a responsive community engagement: reflections of key stakeholders -- Chapter 25: Higher education and training's responsibility in 21st-century societies: considering a redefined and integrated engagement -- Chapter 26: The Sustainable Development Goals and community-based collaboration and research
Abstract:
"Universities across the world strive to be engaged institutions whose purpose is to foster positive social change through teaching, research and community engagement. The integration of these roles may sometimes hinder authentic engagement. Community engagement research in South Africa: histories, methods, theories and practice proposes a transformative model for engagement, in which societal involvement is the driving force behind all activities of the university. This overarching focus serves to blur the divisions between the core higher education and training activities as research becomes more community-based and teaching prepares students to be agents to be informed by research through teaching and learning, and to be agents for positive social change in all spheres of life. This idea is explored throughout the book, with chapters written by renowned community engagement practitioners and scholars of various disciplines. Contributions map community engagement interventions in the intersections of fields such as education, the social sciences, psychology, health, planning, engineering and architecture. They share best practices and draw from theoretical scholarship and practical experience, innovative ways of conceptualising, establishing and "community experiencing" projects. Based on original research, contributors encourage thought of modelling the practical implementation of community engagement at universities"--Back cover