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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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Historical Amnesia and Uncovering School History
Schools and education policy “It has become commonplace to remark that historians of education have become less interested in schools and schooling, and more interested in a wider range of educational institutions, not to mention education that takes place beyond formal organizations. Gary McCulloch has explored in detail the many different directions that historians…
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A Message to the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools
I am responding to the below-mentioned Campaign and the thinking in reaction to a meme, posted on the Facebook page of the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools. “This, in a nutshell, is why [meme] there should be no religious instruction in public schools. It doesn’t get more divisive and judgemental than this.…
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What’s the brand plan? Games boss wants to nail the essence of Brisbane — The Complex Answer
Dear Editor, InQueensland , I am a member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc., Australian Historical Association Inc., and my work over the decade goes to the Mapping Brisbane History (MBH) Project, and the Brisbane Southside History Network (BSHN), and I am the President of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum (SBSF). …
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NEVILLE’S 48 HOURS (OR SO) IN ADELAIDE
Short Blog Report NEVILLE’S 48 HOURS (OR SO) IN ADELAIDE My first tip to Adelaide was a very quick and short time Friday late night to Sunday early morning. The nature of the business – the mission and budget – meant that the time for extensive sightseeing would have to be the next trip…
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“Could we be a little more creative and come up with another group name that doesn’t associate history & philosophy with UQ?”
Dear Emma, Those who have made the complaint should be informed of a number of facts. 1. I am not a UQ Staff Member. 2. I am a member of the public. 3. I am a leader in several community organisations. 4. I am a UQ alumni member, one among many Ph.D. graduates who have…
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What is Education, and Why are Educational Policies Failing?
Is ‘Schooling’ Education? Or is it behaviour modification, and is it that necessarily a bad thing? What I am suggesting is that the problem is not so much around the institutional commitment to modify behaviour for socialisation, but much, much, more that ‘schooling’ fails to produce comprehension in the educational needs and “outcomes.” Schooling…
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The Squeezed
My new sociological model. Politicians and bureaucrats at the top, bottom-thinking in a tight bubble of a worldview, and thinking well of their ‘success’. The public frustrated at policy failure. And policy researchers and developers in the squeeze of being under-deployed and under-utilised in their careers. The solutions are maddeningly obvious to the educated, but…
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C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite, the Old-New Left, and Queensland lived Ideologies
Wright Mills’ The Power Elite (1956) has been a major sociological work that has repeatedly been the right framework to understand the political and social chaos I have experienced and witnessed in my lifetime. It is not a perfect work and not a perfect model. The sociologist examines three firmly interlocked prongs of American power:…
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Please Read Carefully
I was recently shocked by email replies to a short comment I made, as what I thought was a extending out a hand of friendship with an intelligent comment. The replies were hostile in the first case, and extremely annoyed in the second. Both replies misunderstood my intent for the comment, and misunderstood the…
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Is Social Media to Blame for Academic Ruin?
The Philosophy Café Meet Up, Brisbane, Australia IS SOCIAL MEDIA TO BLAME FOR ACADEMIC RUIN? A Document to be Read by Academics: A Message from the Wider Communities Is Social Media to Blame for Academic Ruin (Corrections 7 Oct 22) Saturday, October 8, 2022 Is Social Media to Blame for Academic Ruin? Start Time 1.00…