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 this can most appropriately be done by reconsidering its civic role in relation to critical reasoning, social justice and deliberation with others.
From: Perspectives in Education, Vol. 26 (1) March 2008
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