Dear VC, It is not that I do not care for your difficult position in my campaign to employ and contract the best and leading candidates for employment and contracting. In the United States the situation is far worse. ...
Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
The Integrity of Learning and the Political Silence
“This issue of Encounters/recontres/Encuentros on Education reunites historians working in Departments of History and Sociology with historians and sociological historians working in Faculties of Education. History of Education brings with her particularities inherent...
TASA Sociology of Education SIG Social Sciences Week Event: Expressions of Interest
The TASA Sociology of Education special interest group is inviting expressions of interest for presentations in a symposium for Social Sciences Week called ‘Levelling the Field - how do diverse students negotiate education systems between constraints and...
How to reverse 30 years in higher education policy?
Dear friends, Here is a prime example in the outcome of 30 years' failure in higher education policies: “There are forums on contract cheating writers and I’ve seen them discuss that students have been caught for using AI and...
Max the Cat received an honorary degree…When ‘Fun’ Rules Policy and Politics
“We don’t hand out doctoral degrees here, but I thought it would be fun to give Max one,” Franklin said, noting that Vermont Public Radio covered the story. I, like anyone, will be misunderstood. So, let me be clear : I have no problem in Max the...
‘Reckless Race for Dominance’: Is Any Decision-Maker Listening?
I have been making the moral warning, over and over, again and again. Is Any Decision-Maker Listening? From Kevin Roose, reporting from San Francisco, June 4, 2024, in "OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance," The Washington Post....
QUESTION: Why the Culture-History Warfare upon Education in Early 21st Century?
This morning's story, for me, is Patrick Jack's article in The Higher Education supplement, which examined the fallout in a conflict: Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology of the United Kingdom, with Kamna Patel, associate...
The Weight of Block-Thinking Division between “Religious” and “Secular”
Dear friends, What has happened in the United States is a shift of the weight of the Block-Thinking Division between "Religious" and "Secular". Let me unpack that phrasing. Block-thinking is the cognition motivated by the collective agenda of an interest group,...
Romanticism and Charles Taylor
Review Essay: Matthew Hunter, Charles Taylor’s Sublime Shortcomings: The great philosopher’s book about poetry is provocative but disappointing, The Chronicle of Higher Education, MAY 22, 2024. Charles Taylor (2024). Cosmic...