Partnerships and Power: Community Partners’ Experiences of Service-Learning
Africanus: Journal of Development Studies
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Partnerships and Power: Community Partners’ Experiences of Service-Learning
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Matthews, Sally
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service-learning
community partners community engagement community development volunteer tourism |
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| Description |
Service-learning is a form of community engagement deemed beneficial to both students and community members. However, while there is a large and growing body of research investigating whether service-learning does indeed advance student learning, there has been paucity of research on whether service-learning benefits community partners, and in what way. This study is based on interviews with community partners at a South African university, to explore how community partners experience service-learning. The findings suggest that community partners value service-learning partnerships and believe that the presence of students does, for the most part, meet a need in the community. However, the findings also show that service-learning partners long for greater commitment and attention from the university partner, and that few partners feel empowered to initiate and drive service-learning partnerships, which are instead typically set up by the university. These findings also suggest that service-learning partnerships are of value to partners, but that more needs to be done to address the power relations inherent in partnerships between universities and community partners.
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Unisa Press
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2019-10-31
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Africanus/article/view/5641
10.25159/2663-6522/5641 |
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Africanus: Journal of Development Studies; Vol. 49 No. 1 (2019); 18 pages
2663-6522 0304-615X |
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eng
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https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Africanus/article/view/5641/4062
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Copyright (c) 2019 Unisa Press
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