Introduction: Reflections on higher education and the public good

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dc.contributor.authorLeibowitz, Brendaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-31T14:15:58Z
dc.date.available2017-05-31T14:15:58Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionCITATION: Leibowitz, B. 2012. Introduction: Reflections on higher education and the public good, in B. Leibowitz (ed.). Higher Education for the Public Good: Views from the South. Stellenbosch: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. xvii-xxvii. doi:10.18820/9781928357056/00.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available from AFRICAN SUNMeDIA - www.sun-e-shop.co.zaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThere is always a potential contribution that higher education can make to the public good. In the twenty-first century specific concerns that require our attention are sustainability and global warming, human mobility and migration and peculiarly contemporary diseases such as AIDS. These can be seen as contemporary manifestations of protean and oft-recurring social and natural ills such as war and conflict, food insecurity and religious and ideological rivalries – phenomena to which higher education applies its collective mind and know-how. The greater the technological advances we make, for example in health provision and communications technology, the greater the frustration that we cannot do more to make the world a better place. Despite the enormous potential of higher education as an institution to contribute to the public good, it does not deliver on this potential, as Saleem Badat, the vice chancellor of Rhodes University, observes: Higher education holds the promise of contributing to social justice, development and democratic citizenship. Yet, this promise often remains unrealised and universities, instead, frequently continue to be a powerful mechanism of social exclusion and injustice. (2010:6).en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationLeibowitz, B. 2012. Introduction: Reflections on higher education and the public good, in B. Leibowitz (ed.). Higher Education for the Public Good: Views from the South. Stellenbosch: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. xvii-xxvii. doi:10.18820/9781928357056/00.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-920338-88-6en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn978-1-928357-05-6 (ebook)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.18820/9781928357056/00
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101655
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherSUN MeDIAen_ZA
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dc.rights.holderBrenda Leibowitzen_ZA
dc.subjectEducation, Higher -- Social aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectCommon good -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectCitizenship -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversities and colleges -- Curricula -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial problems -- South Africa -- Citizen participationen_ZA
dc.titleIntroduction: Reflections on higher education and the public gooden_ZA
dc.typeChapters in Booksen_ZA
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