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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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Australian Higher Education System is Stuck, Why Can NOT the VC See nothing has changed in the last two decades?
Dear University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and Griffith Vice-Chancellors, From the RMIT VC, Professor Alec Cameron: “Higher education and vocational education can work together to support the myriad journeys through learning and work, giving people flexible options to meet their life goals as those evolve”, since “’the goal of reform must be growth for…
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Re-Thinking Australian-American Paradigms
Without doubt, Allan Megill is the best intellectual historian in the United States. His paradigm on what constitutes historical knowledge, and what constitutes historical error, is the framing for my multidisciplinary work. There are three American scholars, who have continued to shaped my thinking in the Australian-American discourse, the other two are historical geographer David…
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2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities
In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from the ethos of the Covid-19…
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Speaking Truth to Power: Range Of Personal Semantics
My response to the LinkedIn campaign, “How do you combine research and teaching in higher education?”, “Powered by AI and the LinkedIn community”. I combine research and teaching in higher education by being personal. And it seems as if that is difficult for many to understand, but understood by billions of persons who…
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We Know What We Are Talking About, But Do the Corporates?
A comment on the state of intelligence in the global corporate world, here in Australia and elsewhere. Apologizes to the poets, including myself. The point is that the corporates have no poetic sensibility nor interest in the insights of poetry. We Know What We Are Talking About, But the Corporates DO NOT! Image:…
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Letter to Professor Carolyn Evans, Vice-Chancellor, Griffith University (30 August 2023)
Dear Professor Evans, Many thanks for acknowledging my story. The only reason to share it with you is that there are no positions for a person of my high caliber. Looking, this morning, in the ‘Jobs at Griffith’ and filtering for the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, the only position advertised…
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Types of Races — Rats, Foxes, or Tortoises
The “The Tortoise and the Hare” is one of Aesop’s Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery (rather than doggedness) are employed to overcome a…
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The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors
The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors…the world has changed and you are left at its margins, raging with no clear intelligence. You have become marginalised in understanding the new world, as you are marginalised in your poverty, both concrete and abstract. That poverty comes from power-brokers who have played you in the…
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Are Queensland power-brokers to learn from the FREE VCE History Roadshow?
Hi Stephen, Just a friendly reminder that I am serious about a former answer to my question and the email to you on 3 August (attached); from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, the equivalent of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and also the National Trust of Australia Queensland, History Queensland Inc., and the Queensland…
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Part Three: Urban Rebellion and Community Education
Today, I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on linking “town planning rebellion” and the Brisbane history(ies) of local studies and the examination of municipal governance. Two names. In the case of the former, Rod Fisher, and, in the case, of the latter, John Laverty. Both have past. It is not only…