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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 in lecture notes. More significant change came in curriculum re-structuring and changing the name of…
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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 changed significantly over the years. When the University began the ‘school’…
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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 ‘schooling’ fails to produce comprehension in the educational needs and “outcomes.” Schooling…
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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 Anglo-Saxon Period” and “The Transition from Norman Despotism to the Medieval Parliamentary Monarchy.” It was…
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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 well on simple slogans and snappy quotes, but if the process does not take us…
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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…