A response by social media participant had initiated some preliminary research gathering. The response was to a post I had put up: “Both the culture and religion are in a strange, binary, process of synthesis—a tension, but...
Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
Institutional Neutrality Is a Copout
Among American universities these days, institutional neutrality is decidedly on the rise. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, an advocate for neutrality, now lists 25 institutions that have adopted this position, most in the last year. There...
How to re-build Queensland Universities and Other Critical Thought
The mega-universities in search of a ‘soul’ Mergers, ComUEs, “experimental public establishments”: France’s numerous university amalgamations have taken many forms and many names over the past decade or so, with the last model producing two of the...
Queensland Government’s inability to deal with histories
Dear friends, A message not from me, but, as one of the many Queensland public, I support. "Queensland Government's inability to deal with histories." Queensland Ignored Its Own Bicentenary...
Failures in/on Higher Education Economics; the solutions are a start in policy reversal, against commodification
Failures in/on Higher Education Economics; the solutions are a start in policy reversal, against commodification. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Neville Buch <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 10:35 Subject: Re: No...
Buch, Neville (2025). Free Thought. UU Underworld, January 2025, page seven
Buch, Neville (2025). Free Thought. UU Underworld, January 2025, page seven Dear folks, Happy New Year. Thought the attached might be of interest in relation to almost everything. Featured Image: A human brains with...
Ontological Working Conclusions
Definitional phrasing copied and pasted from Wikipedia. “genuinely reflecting on, and responding to, the needs, demands, and expectations of teaching about teaching within the academy”. John Loughran[1] “The sociology of sociology is a topic of sociology...
Thoughts with a Professional History colleague on “Artificial Intelligence”
Dear friend, I have written on this topic in the last six-eight years as a MPHA. I work with a very senior educationist and a senior philosopher. All of us at the cutting edge of critical thinking in our separate global fields, but, and listen carefully,...
Stephanie M. Lee on “AI by omission”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thursday, December 19, 2024
AI by omission Researchers seem to agree that the people who helped write a paper should have their names attached to it. The same can’t be said about artificial intelligence, as our Stephanie M. Lee reports. Researchers are often flouting requirements to note...