"'Critical pedagogy' enjoins us to identify what social purposes higher education should serve and, in particular, to address what Jurgen Habermas and other critical theorists refer to as 'emancipatory' purposes for education."
Paul Ashwin, Monica McLean
Towards a reconciliation of Phenomenographic and Critical Pedagogy perspectives in Higher Education through a focus on academic engagement.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/cld/cldevent/docs/ashwin.pdf