‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function

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‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function

Attention has been drawn to reduction of universities’ purposes to serve economic interests only. This dissatisfaction has provoked thinking about how to reclaim a critical, moral role for universities in society. Inspired by contemporary utopian studies this paper brings together traditional ideas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McLean, Monica
Format:	Article
Published:	University of the Western Cape 2015
Subjects:	Basil Bernstein capabilities approach knowledge university teaching utopian studies.
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31782/

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