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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 Service Outreach to State and Local Government, in State & Local Government Review, May 1979, Vol. 11, No. 2…
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Sartre on Humanism – Annotated. CRT No. 2
The task on hand is to overcome misunderstandings of humanism, in the same way that Jean-Paul Sartre attempted to overcome misunderstandings of existentialism; explained in his ‘Existentialism Is a Humanism.’ It is beneficial to examine Jean-Paul Sartre’s statements on humanism, and to rethink on what is meant by humanism. Sartre provided one version, but it…
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Has the History and Philosophy Schools lost it in the New World of Online Learning and Community Education?
“The Engineering & Design Institute, known as TEDI-London, which believes that its mix of online learning and collaborative hands-on tutorial teaching, allied with deep industry links, will prove a hit with students and would-be employers alike.” So, stated in the The Higher Education (THE) online email summary which arrives daily in my Inbox. Something is…
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Updated Design for Dr Neville Buch
Thanks to the brilliance of my web designer and online marketing manager, Mr Ryan Jones, there is now a new history consultancy business in this space. Enjoy the experience of understanding history in multi-dimensional forms of the global-local nexus.
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Small Is Big
Small is Big … at the Australian Historical Association Conference on 3-4 July 2018 at the Australian National University, Acton, Canberra Dr Buch presented a paper called, “Small is Big: Scaling the Map for Brisbane Persons and Institutions 1823-2000” at the AHA Conference on 4 July 2018. The Mapping Brisbane History Project is a new…
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Nietzsche and Methods of History – Being Active
Nietzsche and Methods of History – Being Active In John Armstrong’s short book, “Life Lessons From Nietzsche”, extracts from the nineteenth century philosopher are used to provide honest consolation. Today, I found a strong sense of honest consolation in the chapter which looked at Nietzsche’s essay, “Use & Abuse of History”. The importance of the…
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Interrelation of Ideas on Consciousness and Reality
Although it is not apparent from the philosophical subject matter, this essay is a plea for historians to find the compatibility, for the writing of public history, of the personal and the social. More fashionable historiographies of memoir, oral history, biography, are driving the conversation of history into solipsistic direction. It is the opposite extreme…
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Historical Geography Relives The MBH Project
Introducing the Mapping Brisbane History Project for the 2016 Professional Historians Australia Conference, Melbourne, Australia Google Maps and Google Earth in 2005 revived a sub-discipline that had been badly neglected in the previous couple of decades, historical geography. Online historical mapping was generated on a number of different platforms and spurred a plethora of webpages…
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The Concept of Race in Writing Social History
How far would you take the concept of race in writing a social history? The problem is that the concept sits much on appearance, and, in the twist of discussing the idea of race, it is too easy to have the appearance of being racist, the stance where the racial category has more importance than…
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W.G. Hoskins. English Provincial Towns in the Early Sixteenth Century.
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, Vol. 6 (1956), pp. 1-19. Back | Original Document This is a ground-breaking paper by one of the earliest leading scholars in local history. The context of the early sixteenth century might appear to have little relevance, but the themes of urban development and its social impact…