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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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Educational Placement Poverty and Generations
In the 2021 Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) paper, Lived higher education policy and grand generational narratives at the University of Melbourne 2005-2008: An educational critique of Karl Mannheim and ‘The Problem of Generations’, I had stated that: …
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BACK-UP. THE TECHNOLOGICAL ATTACK. Re: Education ? Placement poverty in Australia (Case Ref: LW62300)
Dear …everyone thinking in Australia, [This post reproduces an email to the Australian public persons. It was the second email sent. The system is attempting to destroy the capacity for the information technology as in email workhorses to handle large and critical thinking as substantial text; fightback to the dumbing-down of the commercial world ! swearword…
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Beyond Binaries in Thought. The difference between the mid-century and the early 21 century
Dear friends, Yes, to life affirmation, irrespective of the colour we “choice to place“ on the canvas, and where we place the splash in our brief moment of time. As a general point among the thoughts of the global educated classes, here is the difference between the mid-century and the early 21 century: we are now…
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What am I worth in the Americanised Economy? What am I worth in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, The timing of this ABC story and Angus Deaton’s Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality (2023), could not be better for me: “But will his colleagues listen to him?” But will my colleagues listen to me? The timing is that I completed a…
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Corruption in The College. When will Vice-Chancellors Make a Bold Stand?
A scholarly colleague of mine wrote in a response to a recent story about the malpractice in academic publishing: Perhaps due to big incentive to write to get published, and not to innovate . Academia has increasingly become a bubble pre-occupied with tenure & commercial potential as a consequence of corporately funded…
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The “Either-Or” Back-Fires: Australian Higher Education Can Not Do Creative Thinking…Yet
In Either/Or Søren Kierkegaard marks ” the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life, which is predicated upon commitment.” Today we have, Either “to allow for universities which are teaching only“ Or universities must “… must conduct ‘world-standard’ research in at least half of the broad fields of education…
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Philosophically Ontology Logic Intersect Compatibility Education (POLICE)
“Police” might not be ‘a great’ acronym, but I referring to each person “policing” their own thought. What I am referring to, is not “self-censorship” in the way the libertarians discuss this concept of “self-censorship”. Libertarians get themselves in knots in thinking that “they”, as individuals, must not fail in the cognition of…
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Letter: Education ? All Types of Placement poverty in Australia
TO WHOM IT CONCERNS…who cares? Thanks for the information on what is being discussed in the communities and the media. Yes, we have two reasonable options here in policy: [below and to the ABC link] Free higher education for courses with large fieldwork programs. Or the industries of the industry partnerships in the fieldwork programs contribute significantly to the students’…
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Higher Education Intellectual Ethos 1989-2024: A Review of Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document
A Review of Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document (PDF Link) Conclusion: The challenge in correcting the views of the Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document is that the problems are what are missing; it is argument of negativity which in the social psychology of the country, fewer minds can grapple with the Document’s: …
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What it Takes in Education: Demythologising Education
Dave (my dear friend), many thanks. It is an extraordinary video and message for our times. I appreciate very much participation in our common passion: education. You know, it is a factor of common humanity, as much as the technocrats and bio-dispositionists want to work to undermine the remaining defences of comprehensive…