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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Et tu? Authority on notice as more schools outed teaching wrong subject
“Et tu? Authority on notice as more schools outed teaching wrong subject” from In Queensland, October 30, 2025. “The spotlight has been placed on a curriculum authority after nine schools discovered they were teaching year 12 students the wrong topic days before final exams. The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority came under…
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Policy Problems that Governance does not want to face
“Year 12 students at eight schools were taught the wrong topic for final exams, as authorities rush to check whether even more pupils have been impacted by the bungle.” In Queensland, October 29, 2025 Whatever operational bundle emerges, there is still the policy problem behind that governance does not want to face. …
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Neil Van Leeuwen’s Précis for Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
The General Concept: A Two-Map Cognitive Structure Consider children playing with dolls on a playground during recess. from Neil Van Leeuwen Two things strike us. First, though the children are absorbed, they don’t lose their grip on reality. They remain aware that sand is sand, that wet sand builds better “castles,” that they…
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Work Profile: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy 222 sources The provided sources cover a broad range of topics, predominantly in philosophy, social theory, and Australian history and sociology. Several texts focus on philosophical concepts such as cognition, consciousness, and the mind-body problem, with discussions ranging from emergentism and realism to the theories of thinkers like Mead, Dewey, and Habermas, the latter…
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Shift the Thinking in Urban Sociology
We need to change current thinking in urban sociology. We do a comprehensive strategy: Urban Coalition (Brisbane), and MICE. Radical enough to shift the agenda, liberal enough to allow everyone a decent place in the social environment, and conservative enough to preserve the legacy of good value. Featured Image: Socio-Anthropological Methods …
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Is History Sold Cheaply?
https://www.facebook.com/simon.cole.241457/videos/799258339556758?idorvanity=250449248402425 That is so funny, Simon Cole, 😆 (see video at link) and on a serious note, appalling 😡…It is in these days of poor cognition — “good enough” is not good enough in project management. It does not take much thought to create a far better revealing “curtain” for a raised…
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David S. Brown on Richard Hofstadter: Personalism in Personable Context is Correct
Social environment inevitably intrudes upon historical analysis, however, and so we must appreciate not simply the author’s work, but also the public and personal circumstances that sustain and gave meaning to his efforts. “Before you study the history,” one commentator advised, “study the historian…The historian, being an individual, is also a product of history, and…
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Education Horizons 2021-2022. Government Acting Badly.
All Payments to Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 At the end of 2022 Dr Buch was placed in an impossible position in terms of gaining employment or a contract for which he was aimfully qualified. This paper analysing the story. The conclusions are questions that the Queensland Government was asking in the period…
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WEEP FOR THE USA
I weep for the persons of the United States of America. The prolonged government shutdown is helping the Trump administration advance its goal of closing the Education Department — a longtime conservative aim that congressional Republicans have failed to act on. The Education Department is in the process of laying off…
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Can UU be Hyper-Real Religion?
Abstract: The ideas of the hyper-real, liberty, unity, and universality, are real-life issues, and not some mere abstractions which horrible and nasty persons dismiss. Why? Because the hyper-real, liberty, unity, and universality, speak to our living together in complicated ways, and as such horrible and nasty persons dismiss it because it threatens their egoism and…