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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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Concepts, Terms, and Frames for the Leveling Playing Field
Here is a list of concepts, terms and definitions for the Level Playing Field. Level Playing Field The following graphs demonstrate a relationship between a selection of concepts, terms and definitions which may unravel confusion. Concepts are using a Primary Term to organise other terms…
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ON MY OLD BOSS. Jason Koutsoukis’ In like Glyn, The Monthly, November 2024
Jason Koutsoukis’ In like Glyn in The Monthly, November 2024, provides an excellent insight into the person of Professor Glyn Davis and the better politics. I worked for Professor Glyn Davis in Office of Vice-Chancellor, The University of Melbourne, during the planning and implementation of the Melbourne Model. Professor Davis is a brilliant…
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Really, Nick Cater!
Nick Cater sent a post in his “Reality Bites” series, called, “Intellectual rearmament”, with the tagline, “The British theologian who gave us the ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice.” Really? You’d need ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice? Your outlook on life and politics is warfare? The theologian in…
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Dr Buch’s Full Listings of Articles, Essays, Chapters, and Books
Americans Have Not Turned Against Higher Ed. Reports of the sector’s cratering popularity are mistaken, The Chronicle of Higher Education, By Kevin Carey and Sophie Nguyen October 15, 2024 Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Or so we are told. As many colleges grapple with declining enrollment and intense…
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Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson’s The trap of student caps
Dear friends and decision makers, Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson’s The trap of student caps. This is John Hewson, the dry, for God’s Sake! The government policy, and policy for a long time, has been to create a culture-history warfare…
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NDB MIND-BODY-COGNITION VENN
Populist conversations misconstrue references and semantics to “Mind”, “Body”, and “Cognition”, which are confusions in theses of hard materialism, vague spiritualism, and centralism inaccuracy. The Venn Diagram here demonstrate the correct relations and terminology coming out of compatibilist philosophies, cognition histories and sociology, and comprehensive education. Mind is an emergent property…
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The Problem of Australian Sandstones Universities
Dear UQ Vice-Chancellor, This is the statistic you need to understand: University of Oxford, United Kingdom, No. of FTE Students: 22,095; No. student per staff 10.8; International Students 43%; Female-Male Ratio 51 : 49. University of Queensland, Australia, No. of FTE Students: 41,249; No. student per staff 37.6;…
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Announcement: Cognition Histories and Sociology Book
After the failure to find a publisher to support the publication of “the Intellectual (Hidden) History of Queensland”. I am moving onto a new major book project, coordinated with the other informally contracted book project: 1) on Humanism; 2) on the Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland (FAWQ) and; on the Level Playing…
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Rudolf Steiner’s Goethe: The Better Part of Thinking for the 21st Century
“thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.” Rudolf Steiner (1883), Goethean Science, GA1. The Goethe-Steiner multi-layered worldview, known as “Goethean science,” has been spiralling back for some time; in Australia…
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The Power Elite and American Wealth on Tuesday 5 November 2024
“Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite.” C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills’ The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the length of time to the present. I have said it…