Keeping ICT in Education Community Engagement Relevant: Infinite Possibilities?

2017 ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Goosen ◽  
Ronell van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Ict In Education ◽  
Education Community

scholarly journals What makes or breaks higher education community engagement in the South African rural school context: A multiple-partner perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Gabriel Machimana ◽  
Maximus Monaheng Sefotho ◽  
Liesel Ebersöhn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
School Context ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Wide Range

The purpose of this study is to inform global citizenship practice as a higher education agenda by comparing the retrospective experiences of a range of community engagement partners and including often silent voices of non-researcher partners. Higher education–community engagement aims to contribute to social justice as it constructs and transfers new knowledge from the perspectives of a wide range of community engagement partners. This qualitative secondary analysis study was framed theoretically by the transformative–emancipatory paradigm. Existing case data, generated on retrospective experiences of community engagement partners in a long-term community engagement partnership, were conveniently sampled to analyse and compare a range of community engagement experiences ( parents of student clients ( n = 12: females 10, males 2), teachers from the partner rural school ( n = 18: females 12, males 6), student-educational psychology clients ( n = 31: females 14, males 17), Academic Service-Learning ( ASL) students ( n = 20: females 17, males 3) and researchers ( n = 12: females 11, males 1). Following thematic in-case and cross-case analysis, it emerged that all higher education–community engagement partners experienced that socio-economic challenges (defined as rural school adversities, include financial, geographic and social challenges) are addressed when an higher education–community engagement partnership exists, but that particular operational challenges (communication barriers, time constraints, workload and unclear scope, inconsistent feedback, as well as conflicting expectations) hamper higher education–community engagement partnership. A significant insight from this study is that a range of community engagement partners experience similar challenges when a university and rural school partner. All community engagement partners experienced that higher education–community engagement is challenged by the structural disparity between the rural context and operational miscommunication.

Teacher Education, Community Service Learning and Student Efficacy for Community Engagement

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUDE BUTCHER ◽  
PETER HOWARD ◽  
ELIZABETH LABONE ◽  
MICHAEL BAILEY ◽  
SUSAN GROUNDWATER SMITH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Student Efficacy ◽  
Education Community

scholarly journals A compatible partnership? Student-community engagement and traditional university education

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Bourner
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
University Education ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Range Of Variation ◽  
Do So

This article looks at how student learning from community engagement is related to traditional university education. In order to do so it has to deal with the range of variation in both student-community engagement and traditional university education and it has to explore the knowledge, skills and attitudes that characterise the learning outcomes of each. The main conclusion reached is that student-community engagement does not fit within traditional university education but it does fit with it. They are complementary forms of higher education that together better prepare students for their next steps after university than either do on its own. Keywords: Traditional university education, community engagement, student learning, knowledge, skills, attitudes.

Taking note of obstacles research partners negotiate in long-term higher education community engagement partnerships

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 59-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesel Ebersöhn ◽  
Tilda Loots ◽  
Irma Eloff ◽  
Ronél Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Education Community
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