University Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning

Julia Preece is Professor of Adult Education at the Durban University of Technology and Honorary Professor at the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State in South Africa.  She has published widely on adult education, lifelong learning and community engagement.

“Julia Preece’s book is an exciting and very important book for the community engagement field—not just in South Africa and the global south where many of her case studies are located, but for the field more broadly too. … this is an excellent book and an essential read for SL and CE practitioners and students in both the global South and North.” (Janice McMillan, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 37 (6), 2018)​

• Chapter 1. Background Context for Universities and Community Engagement in Africa.- Chapter 2. A Capabilities and Asset-Based Development Approach to Community Engagement.- Chapter 3. Community Engagement and its Evolving Terminology.- Chapter 4. Community Engagement through Service Learning.- Chapter 5. Learning Cities as Community Engagement.- Chapter 6. Two Case Examples of Community Engagement.- Chapter 7. The Porous University in Action.- Chapter 8. Implications of the Porous University for Policy and Practice.