Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series

TASA’s Levelling the Playing Field, 11 September 2024

TASA’s Levelling the Playing Field, 11 September 2024

  NDB. Levelling the Playing Field (edited 15 Sept 24)       The seminar, co-convened by Sharon Aris of the TASA Sociology of Education Special Interest Group, commenced with a warm welcome to participants and an introduction to the theme centered...

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The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy

The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy

Dear friends,   https://www.academia.edu/123734421/The_Role_of_the_Intellectual_in_the_Australian_Economy The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy     In 2002 Raewyn Connell and Julian Wood produced an article in the Journal of Sociology...

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What are real solutions?

What are real solutions?

Featured Image: Paid. Invoice #: 00235-2024.  240909.highres.aitool     In 1966, Abraham Maslow, originator of the Hierarchy of Needs, made this well-known observation:     “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything...

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Why Politicians Cannot Make Intelligent Captain’s Call.

Why Politicians Cannot Make Intelligent Captain’s Call.

Higher education works theoretically as a collegial enterprise. In denial of the culture-history nonsense, a collegial process does not end up in a mess of indecision, if the principles of collegial dialogue are adhered to. There are more agreement than disagreement...

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Redirecting the Anger at the Blips

Redirecting the Anger at the Blips

“And it seems possible now, as online television, to service seriously thinking community workers. The best way to deal with the anger, at the blip who deliberate forced closures of community enterprises, is to restore community enterprises anew against the wishes of...

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