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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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Who are-is the Fool(s)
PDF FILE Who are-is the Fool(s) 29 November 2025 But dated 29 November 2015. I have been thinking about all of these topics across the fields of learning since 2015. Who are-is the Fool(s) Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 https://www.academia.edu/145198068/Who_are_is_the_Fool_s_ Abstract: In November 2025, a quick series of articles were published…
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Cognitive Failure in the Idea of Job Ready: cognitive failures being discussed, from my work on cognition histories and sociology.
PDF FILE: Cognitive Failure in the Idea of Job Ready https://www.academia.edu/145183063/Cognitive_Failure_in_the_Idea_of_Job_Ready 28 November 2025 Dear friends, I have dug deeper in this academia.edu article on the cognitive failures being discussed, from my work on cognition histories and sociology. I have widen the circle for economists, who may…
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Ignorance and Confusion in National Histories: Against Propaganda
Why are Americans so ignorant about the world? I think the answer is, mostly, because they want to be. One could argue that it’s the fault of the American education system, or the fact the U.S. is actually geographically isolated from the rest of the world, separated by two…
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Great Campus Vibe Shift?
Image: The Dynamic of Cognition for the Great Campus Vibe Shift? I woke up this morning and found yet another academic fashion. What in hell’s name is Great Campus Vibe Shift? Google was not particularly helpful with the first attempt. But then I asked the more open question, what is…
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Amalgamation is not good Interdisciplinary Thinking
It is not interdisciplinary thinking in the way I have been arguing for years. It is simply cost-cutting at a time when governments and the market is deliberately* cut funding overall. Funding arguments then become arguments about deck chairs on the Titanic. If you think this hyperbolic, consider the slow decline…
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An Advert for the Need for MICE
During the 2026 South Australian Australian of the Year Awards, an embarrassing blunder occurred when the Senior award winner was initially announced, then un-awarded, only for the original winner to be reinstated after a period of confusion. Meteorologist (?) Malcolm Benoy was first named, then told there was a mistake and…
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Where be the Arrogance (reference to Tittle 2004): The Value of Public Sociology in 2024, and not 2004
The Value of Public Sociology in 2024, and not 2004 Dr Neville Buch There is for Humanism in the 21st century and Trumpocene a correct way of thinking available (Toulmin 1953: 219, 235), and the singular here is one summative thought that combines many other thoughts. There is both diversity and a singular…
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Policy Problems that Governance does not want to face
“Year 12 students at eight schools were taught the wrong topic for final exams, as authorities rush to check whether even more pupils have been impacted by the bungle.” In Queensland, October 29, 2025 Whatever operational bundle emerges, there is still the policy problem behind that governance does not want to face. …
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Shift the Thinking in Urban Sociology
We need to change current thinking in urban sociology. We do a comprehensive strategy: Urban Coalition (Brisbane), and MICE. Radical enough to shift the agenda, liberal enough to allow everyone a decent place in the social environment, and conservative enough to preserve the legacy of good value. Featured Image: Socio-Anthropological Methods …
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David S. Brown on Richard Hofstadter: Personalism in Personable Context is Correct
Social environment inevitably intrudes upon historical analysis, however, and so we must appreciate not simply the author’s work, but also the public and personal circumstances that sustain and gave meaning to his efforts. “Before you study the history,” one commentator advised, “study the historian…The historian, being an individual, is also a product of history, and…