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Category: Educationalist History
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The Failure IN Queensland State Education: “If Teachers and Parents want the old ways, then the old ways will continue”
THE OLD WAYS CONTINUED THE OLD WAYS:
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Honesty in Politics
The “How institutions mask survival as mission“ audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: The Attempted Eclipse of Truth: Integrity, Institutionalism, and the Virtue of Honesty in a Denoetization Age I am happy to be accused “too generous”, in the audio commentary, which means that, Premier of Queensland, and the Education Minister, the…
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Erasmianism and the Re-Enchantment of the Humanist Spirit
Abstract This essay explores the historical, philosophical, and pedagogical architecture of Erasmianism—a distinctive worldview that prioritizes peace, intellectual concord, and the development of the “inward man” over dogmatic purity and ideological factionalism. Tracing its roots from a transformative educational encounter at The University of Queensland in 1984 under the mentorship of Noeline Hall, the analysis…
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The New Global Paradigm
The New Global Paradigm in Cognition: Collaborative International Scholarship and the Restoration of Human Authorship AbstractThis essay explores the emergence of the new collaborative international scholarship that is establishing a New Global Paradigm (NGP) in cognition and epistemology. Confronted with the twentieth-first-century crises of “denoetization” the mechanical liquidation of human judgment under automated systems and…
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Bureaucratic Humanism in the Early Twentieth Century: Intellectual Failures and Corrective Philosophy
The audio commentary of Dr. Buch’s early 20th century intellectual history. Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract This essay critiques the rise of bureaucratic humanism in the early twentieth century, a period marked by an intellectual regression where humanism was stripped of its reflective, interpretive depth and captured by elite academic structures and technical reductionism. Originating in…
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The Historiographical Matrix Funding: Global Scholarship and Local Memory Campaign Update
Dr Neville Buch[1] https://www.gofundme.com/f/understanding-history-as-philosophy-in-practice-athens Fund-Raising Update: Bridging Local History and Global Sociology Supporting major book publication projects through international conference participation is an investment in the “cultural infrastructure” of regional memory and global intellectual discourse. My recent success at the Athens conference, participating online, has already acted as a significant catalyst, generating a massive volume…
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Big Belief and Big Doubt. Navigating the Altar of Autocomplete
Abstract In the complex landscape of 2026, the concepts of “Big Belief” and “Big Doubt” emerge as the critical navigational anchors for the human mind. “Big Belief” refers to an “interpretive priority” where a comprehensive worldview—be it religious or naturalistic—orients a person’s engagement with every object and event in reality. Conversely, “Big Doubt” represents the…
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The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop
PDF FILE: The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop https://www.academia.edu/166781431/The_Cognitive_Organic_Mechanics_of_Outlander_s_Historical_Workshop The Outlander Workshop: Cognitive Landscapes of the 18th Century I. Contractarianism and the Strategic Social Deal In Outlander, the social structures of 1743 Scotland are characterized by a Hobbesian Contractarianism. This political theory posits that legitimate authority…
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Letter to the Honourable Minister for Education, Queensland
26 April 2026 Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA The Honourable Minister for Education PO Box 15033 City East, QLD 4002 AUSTRALIA Dear Minister, I am writing to formally present a suite of transformative curriculum packages developed by the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) in collaboration…
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Correcting Biases: Queensland
I am writing to propose a business plan to negotiate with the Queensland Department of Education regarding payment for using several of my curriculum packages. Details coming soon. In the meantime… Abstract This essay performs a Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) analysis on the recent Times Higher Education (THE) report regarding an experimental “set bias corrector” for student…