Community Engagement in African Universities - Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges

Announcing a new book from NIACE: The most dominant voices for university engagement emanate from the USA, Australia and countries in Europe. Nevertheless, community engagement has a long tradition in African universities, although that tradition has been constrained by the fluctuating conditionalities of development funding agendas.

Community Engagement in African Universities provides a historical and contemporary context for universities in Anglophone-speaking Africa, presenting the socio-economic realities of different national contexts which frame the variety of debates about community engagement on the continent. It includes empirical findings of research initiatives as well as speculative concerns about the role of community and regional engagement and its relationship to service learning in particular universities, thus presenting a variety of positions and perspectives to stimulate further debates.

The text will be of interest to researchers and students of community engagement and the role of higher education, policy-makers and planners.

The editors

Julia Preece is professor of adult education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Peggy Gabo Ntseane is associate professor in the Department of Adult Education of the University of Botswana.

Oitshepile MmaB Modise is a senior lecturer in the Department of Adult Education, University of Botswana.

Mike Osborne is professor of adult and lifelong learning at the University of Glasgow, director of its Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning, and co-director of the PASCAL Observatory on place management, social capital and lifelong learning.

ISBN: 9781862015999