In addition to the FSE’s considerable assistance to academic researchers during 2021, the FSE’s academic contribution titled “Engagement with mining-affected communities: lessons learnt – a case study within the West Rand Goldfields” was included in the scholarly publication titled “Community engagement research in South Africa: Histories, methods, theories and practice”.
What this publication has to offer is the result of many months of engagements among editors and communications with chapter authors, funders and Van Schaik as publisher. According to the preface of the publication “this publication …captures scholarly contributions of some leading researchers in the field of community engagement and service-learning. The input present original research, multidisciplinary inclusivity and features of some reflections that stretch across multi-institutional and faculty border….written by scholars for a scholarly audience, the book seeks to expand knowledge in the field of community engagement at both the theoretical and pragmatic level through intellectual engagement with the complexities of community engagement in tertiary education.”
Andrew Furco, the Associate Vice President of Public Engagement and Associate Professor in Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota, United States in the foreword to the book, proffered the following comments on the publication: “Penned by a veritable who’s who of South African experts on higher education community engagement, this volume goes beyond the usual cursory discussions of the history, values and principles that define and drive service-learning and community engagement. Instead, the authors take a deep dive into a broad range of complex and critical issues, such as indigeneity, rurality, community embeddedness, knowledge systems, cultural appropriation, and the nexus between science and engagement.”
The assigned ISBN for Community Engagement:
Print book: 9780627037931
Ebook: 9780627037948