The Public Role of the University Reconsidered

Autor/in	Waghid, Yusef
Titel	The Public Role of the University Reconsidered
Quelle	In: Perspectives in Education, 26 (2008) 1, S.19-24 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0258-2236
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Global Education; Social Justice; Global Approach; College Role; Universities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Globales Lernen; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Globales Denken; University; Universität
Abstract	Today, higher education has become a commodity in the global education market aiming to serve the knowledge society through "the production, transmission and dissemination of high-quality knowledge" (Simons, 2006, 33). One cannot dispute the economic importance of higher education, but to see the university as performing only this economic function is a misplaced and indefensible idea. In this article I shall argue that the university (its academics and graduates) has a role to play in cultivating democratic action and that this can most appropriately be done by reconsidering its civic role in relation to critical reasoning, social justice and deliberation with others. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10