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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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The Language of Human “Snakes”: Why Some Humans are Intense Liars and Why the Uneducated Believe Them?
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” [spoken by J.D. Vance] When the CNN host, Dana…
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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 on the challenges and opportunities faced by diverse students within educational systems. Sharon…
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Propaganda: Compare The APSC Commissioner’s Directions (Not Propaganda) and The APSC Press Statement (Propaganda)
Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, “I apologise as Public Service Commissioner to those affected by the Scheme and to the Australian public for the part played…
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Why every aspect of Propaganda needs to be Challenged, including click bait?
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, “Why Scholars Should Stop Studying ‘Misinformation’.” Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was ‘click bait’, and for what was a worthy article to read; nevertheless, the headline assertion was…
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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 called, “Globalization and scientific labour: patterns in a life-history study of intellectual workers in the periphery.” The theme of my article is a critical question of…
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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 as if it were a nail.” This type of cognitive bias became known…
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This is WHY we need paid professional community education: To Destroy the Lies Before they Grow
Dear friends To Destroy the Lies Before the Grow: Community Education, paid because it cannot survive if it is not funded. It is a Call for true Public Education in Brisbane, South-East Queensland, Queensland. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/world/europe/grenfell-tower-fire-inquiry-report-uk.html?smid=url-share — Findings from the Final Report of Grenfell Tower Fire A…
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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 among intellectuals, and it is only the nonsense of the culture-history ‘know-nothing’ that says…
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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 the blips.” Let’s be clear, our economy is structured for…
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“School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools
An examination of the Problem of ‘Schooling’ and Sociological-Person Models. “The literature traditionally goes to the political and legal landscapes but philosophically ignores the language.” “[Buch] points out that such approaches are based on confusing ideological labels. For the field of studies-in-religion, the thinking has changed greatly as conceptual schemas and this…