Bringing the community into higher education

dc.contributor.authorAlbertyn, Ruth M.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-25T13:41:22Z
dc.date.available2017-05-25T13:41:22Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available from AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch: South Africa.en_ZA
dc.descriptionCITATION: Albertyn, R. M. 2016. Bringing the community into higher education, in L. Frick, V. Trafford & M. Fourie-Malherbe (eds). Being Scholarly: Festschrift in honour of the work of Eli M Bitzer. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. 45-52. doi:10.18820/9781928314219/04.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: The third core function of community interaction in higher education is often viewed as the peripheral activity in the triad of academic tasks. Community interaction is seen as an imperative which often results in reluctant compliance rather than enthusiastic engagement. Notional value of community initiatives has been well articulated both internationally and nationally and calls on the sense of social justice, making a meaningful contribution to society, mutual benefits and reciprocity (Boyer 1990; Kolawole 2005; Waghid 2009; Hall 2010; Lange 2012). Community initiatives can contribute to transformation that is so vital in the historical context of South African higher education (Albertyn and Daniels 2009; Bitzer and Albertyn 2012; Leibowitz 2012; Petersen and Osman 2013). Despite cognition of the well-documented benefits of engaged activity, it is widely felt that many academics pay lip-service to community interaction and try to get away with the bare minimum. Undoubtedly, the reason for this could be ascribed to the innate tensions currently faced by universities and academics. This situation may be due to on the one hand, the reality of the globalised economy with the competitive, individualised focus of knowledge economies (James, Guile and Unwin 2013), and on the other hand, the social agenda which encourages engaged citizenship.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationAlbertyn, R. M. 2016. Bringing the community into higher education, in L. Frick, V. Trafford & M. Fourie-Malherbe (eds). Being Scholarly: Festschrift in honour of the work of Eli M Bitzer. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. 45-52. doi:10.18820/9781928314219/04.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-928314-20-2
dc.identifier.issn978-1-928314-21-9 (ebook)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.18820/9781928314219/04
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101599
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherAFRICAN SUN MeDIAen_ZA
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dc.rights.holderAFRICAN SUN MeDIA and Authorsen_ZA
dc.subjectEducation (Higher) -- Community developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectCommunity interactionen_ZA
dc.subjectService learningen_ZA
dc.subjectResearch -- Relevanceen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversities and colleges -- Community engagementen_ZA
dc.titleBringing the community into higher educationen_ZA
dc.typeChapters in Booksen_ZA
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