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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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Apparently, it is a crime…in the United States. I did warn you.
Dear friends, Apparently, it is a crime to teach liberal studies…in the United States. I did warn you. I warned you through discussing the work of Dr Michael Macklin on Ivan Illich’s theories and practice of schooling. The Right have flipped the semantics of Illich’s argument, making it a target called, “Left school indoctrination”. The wider educationalist literature…
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The difficulty Teaching the Undereducated on Social Media
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 often a conflated bringing-together of utopian pacificism and a technological drive for…
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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 are different formulations of the position, but the oft-cited locus classicus is the University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Report,…
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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 country’s top-ranked institutions, Paris-Saclay University and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL). But with rumours of…
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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 Queensland Ignored Its Own Bicentenary Cultural Amnesia In Queensland: A Bicentenary Missed Cultural Amnesia In Queensland: A Bicentenary Missed …
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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 legitimisation To: Lisa Featherstone <[email protected]> Cc: UQ VC OFFICE <[email protected]> Dear Lisa, Thank you, but… …
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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 wings – free mind concept. [Oh, at the moment, cannot afford…
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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 that combines social theories with analysis of the effect of socio-historical contexts in sociological intellectual production.” (Wikipedia).…
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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, “the professional historians are not listening”. Australian…
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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 their use of AI, suggests a preprint from Alex Glynn, a research literacy…