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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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What is Wrong with “the world”: A Christmas Thought in Our Violent Times
What is wrong with our world? It is a perennial question, which come to those at this time of year who are not swayed by the Xmas glitter; or the glitter of any other season. There are many answers but I believe there is ONE primary answer: perception. What is meant, in the…
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My Message in the End of the 2023 Commemoration Season From 2022 for 2024, and the year after…
Dear friends, This is my message at the end of the 2023 commemoration season for Queensland and Brisbane, and speaks for work of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc., in 2024, 2025, and so forth. In 2022 the Forum had an important discussion on how we can “Break the Cycle” of…
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Being Alone and Urban Space: 4 Conferences, 2 Weeks, 2 Cities
I am alone, not like this blank page to which I start to write. We are thrown into a world (Heidegger). I woke up slowly this morning. I slept in. Each morning since 17 December 2016, I awake with a sense of disorientation, and in loss and grief. I am alone.…
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Artificial General Intelligence replicates human intelligence in a machine? A CLEAR NO!
These seven points are important to understand in the debate between I.T. designers and the philosophers. SEVEN IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS. Understand the opening statement is the conclusion in most debates. No need to go down rabbit holes. The general rhetorical statements on AGI, for its promise, is…
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Have We Learnt Anything? The Failure of Higher Education in the Neo-Liberal University
Have we learnt anything in this beast we might call, “the higher education industry”. I fear that I am forced to a cynical answer, which I am sure is not quite correct, and in the analysis, it is a temporary starting point. My cynicism comes from reading, ‘THE’, this morning, a regular…
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Misunderstanding interdisciplinary studies and research
Dear friends, It seems that university academics have existed for too long in the ivory tower, that they do not understand the dynamics of interdisciplinary studies and research. Take, for example, the Monash Study where “50 Monash executives and researchers found that ‘tangible’ factors were the main barriers to multidisciplinary research.” My paper for…
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History, Philosophy, Theology, and the Failure of Rankings
Nobody understands “the state of affair” (a philosophical term) of History, Philosophy, Theology in Australia from The Times Higher Education (THE) Supplement’s world rankings of universities. THE has just released the disciplinary measures in their ranking series. It is as erroneous as all ranking systems are; because the statistics used for the rankings cannot…
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Interdisciplinary research is ‘paid lip service’
Dear friends, What I have been saying for the last few years in the local context, and I just get ignored. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/universities-paying-lip-service-interdisciplinary-research The article I assumed is paywalled. So here is my extract of the take-home messages (less than or equal to 10% for fair research…
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Hope from a Letter
Well, this was unexpected. PM Acknowledgement Letter A letter from the Prime Minister of Australia, and, although not personally but through his Office, it is the first time I have had an acknowledgment from the highest office in our beloved country; a life changing event, and, seriously, proud to be Australian existentially. …
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The misery of rankings and machine thinking
“Oxford University’s Professor of Higher Education Simon Marginson said he disliked the Times rankings because there was no rationale for the mix and ratio of the weightings. Meanwhile, he said survey responses from academics were subjective and often unduly amplified some trends.” “University of Melbourne Professor Michael Wesley, who this year wrote a book…