Facilitating active citizenship in students through the strengthening of university-community partnerships

Rika Swanzen; Victoria Graham

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-9953-3.ch015

Facilitating active citizenship in students through the strengthening of university-community partnerships

Rika Swanzen, Victoria Graham

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Research on Effective Communication in Culturally Diverse Classrooms
Editors	Katia Gonzalez, Rhoda Frumkin
Place of Publication	Hershey PA USA
Publisher	Information Science Reference
Pages	284 - 312
Number of pages	29
ISBN (Print)	9781466699533
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9953-3.ch015
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Facilitating active citizenship in students through the strengthening of university-community partnerships. / Swanzen, Rika; Graham, Victoria.
Handbook of Research on Effective Communication in Culturally Diverse Classrooms. ed. / Katia Gonzalez; Rhoda Frumkin. Hershey PA USA: Information Science Reference, 2016. p. 284 - 312.

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