Macmillan, 2014.

xxxix, 324 p.; 28 cm. -- (GUNi series on the social commitment of universities ; 5)

ISBN 978-0-230-53556-5.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas.

Contenido: The context -- Global challenges -- Rio+20: The future we want: the first global agenda of the XXI century -- The world we imagine -- Personal transformation and the consciousness revolution. Conscious life design in the holistic-biocentric evolutive model -- Higher education in the world: main trends and facts -- Timeline of the main statements of community-univesity engagement -- Global issues on knowledge, engagement and higher education -- Community-university engagement -- Knowledge in a new era -- Knowledge for and with society -- University social responsibility: a mature and responsible definition -- Engagement beyond the third mission: the experience of albukhary international university -- Rebuilding university social engagement -- Research on knowledge, engagement and higher education -- Community-university engagement initiatives: trends and progress -- Regional developments -- Moving beyond the ivory tower: the expanding global movement of engaged universities -- Knowledge, engagement and higher education in Africa -- Knowledge, engagement and higher education in the Arab States -- Knowledge, engagement and higher education in Asia and the Pacific -- Knowledge, engagement and higher education in Europe -- Knowledge, engagement and higher education in Canada and the USA -- Knowledge, engagement and higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Future visions and agenda for action -- Transformative knowledge to drive social change: visions for the future -- Further reading -- Recommended bibliography on community-university engagement.