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标题：The civic university and democracy’s future
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作者：Harry C. Boyte
期刊名称：South African Journal of Science
印刷版ISSN：0038-2353
电子版ISSN：1996-7489
出版年度：2020
卷号：116
期号：3-4
页码：11-12
DOI：10.17159/sajs.2020/7822
语种：English
出版社：The Foundation for Research Development
摘要：Chris Brink, one of South Africa’s leading mathematicians and a major figure in South Africa’s educational transformation from apartheid, has written this important book, The Soul of a University, which deserves wide discussion among educators, administrators, policymakers, students and the broader public. His argument is that universities need what he calls an ‘orthogonal axis’ – a focus on what they are ‘good for’ in addressing the problems of society, in addition to the conventional assessments of what they are ‘good at’, i.e. disciplinary research. This type of university, which he calls the ‘civic university’, supports ‘challenge-led research…responsive to the challenges faced by civil society, globally, nationally or regionally’. Such responsiveness requires ‘civic engagement as another core function of the university’, in addition to ‘what they are good at’ (p. 286).