Higher Education and Problems of Citizenship Formation

Higher Education and Problems of Citizenship Formation

Bibliographic Data

ID11952503
AuthorsMorgan White (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume47
Issue1
Pages112-127
Publication date2012-12-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-9752.12002
OpenAlexW1957686978
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited10

The purpose of the university should be grounded in the concept of citizenship rather than the promise of increased future earnings and research consultancy work. However, this conception of citizenship should be republican rather than liberal. British higher education institutions have suffered at the hands of mechanisms intended to promote accountability. The concept of accountability has undermined the legitimate authority of the university. As pressures from student fee increases, fiscal austerity and accountability mechanisms further undermine the ethic of scholarship, the idea of the university needs to recover its central purpose to ward off civic privatism

Accountability · Austerity · Citizenship · Citizenship education · Higher education · Political science · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration

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