The 2022 Australian and New Zealand History of Education (ANZHES) Conference From selections of the ANZHES Newsletter December 2022, with comments. This blog article -- call it what you like -- "academic", "populist", "community", any political semantics, to ignore...
Introduction Today, we hear stories of Orthodox Judaism, and in this recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, we learn that ‘new orthodoxy’ is a ‘thing’. Image: Online story, Sylvia Goodman. ‘Alternative’ or ‘Sham’? Yeshiva U. Created a New LGBTQ...
I am responding to the below-mentioned Campaign and the thinking in reaction to a meme, posted on the Facebook page of the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools. “This, in a nutshell, is why [meme] there should be no religious instruction in...
There is some concern that in petitioning governments that we should avoid strong-intellectual language. The contrary argument is as follows: Masking political realism in the community has been the way governments have put it over us when they wish to...
Short Blog Report NEVILLE’S 48 HOURS (OR SO) IN ADELAIDE My first tip to Adelaide was a very quick and short time Friday late night to Sunday early morning. The...
Compared to the history and philosophy areas of universities in the early twentieth century, the curriculum of the Classics changed little. There was still change. There were always minor changes, across the curriculum in proscribed books and authors, and adjustments...
Compared to the others of the University curriculum, in particular to modern history, the area of philosophy changed little in the period 1911-1949. However, the scoping of the school changed dramatically, and the change in the curriculum design of the same lessons is...
Is 'Schooling' Education? Or is it behaviour modification, and is it that necessarily a bad thing? What I am suggesting is that the problem is not so much around the institutional commitment to modify behaviour for socialisation, but much, much, more that...
What did the University of Queensland teach under the different disguises of ‘History’ before 1949? It began as British History, Constitutional History, and Economics. First, British history was the one lecture course in 1911-1913, with two lecture sets, “The...