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...
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Strong-Intellectual Rhetoric in Petitions
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...
NEVILLE’S 48 HOURS (OR SO) IN ADELAIDE
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...
THE CLASSICS CURRICULUM AT UQ 1911-1949. PART 2: The Design of Curriculum
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...
THE PHILOSOPHY CURRICULUM AT UQ 1911-1949. PART 2: The Design of Curriculum
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...
What is Education, and Why are Educational Policies Failing?
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...
THE HISTORY CURRICULUM AT UQ 1911-1949. PART 2: The Design of Curriculum
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...
History and Practice of Community Education. CET No. 4: The Whole Concept of Community Education
Free Thinker Institute (New York, NYS, USA) The Philosophy Café, Brisbane, Qld, AU Brisbane Meetup Intellectual Network (BMUIN) The Whole Concept of Community Education: Where are we Heading? Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA (Qld) Wednesday, April 13, 2022 We market...
History and Practice of Community Education. CET No. 1.
“Many educators and administrators feel that university public service programming will assume an even larger role in the university community due to declining enrollment and public demands for relevance.” Robert Sellers. Methodology for Evaluating University Public...