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FOR SALE* Introducing a Major Curriculum for History and Sociology Thinking in Australia: Populism and Elitism
*CONDITIONS APPLY. This Cognition Histories-Sociology curriculum is at the price of a 4-week paid contract to introduce and teach the curriculum, which has four PowerPoint Lesson Plans and is inclusive of History, Sociology, Philosophy, and Educationalist Theory. Introducing a Major Curriculum for History and Sociology Thinking in Australia: Populism and Elitism First Lesson…
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Political Anthropology as Method (Arpad Szakolczai and Australian thinkers)
“Political Anthropology is a way of doing academic/scholarly/research work in order to understand political reality…Humans can never transcend such a participatory perspective.” Barry Cooper, Professor of Politics, University of Calgary, Canada. Political Anthropology as Method Front Matter There is hope if we engage the socio-political anthropological thinking: Environmental Hope.…
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The Best Assessment on Higher Education, Globally Perceived (to date)
Ellie Bothwell, rankings editor, has given the best assessment on Higher Education, globally perceived, at least in the historical moment we have. From Ellie Bothwell, This week in higher education, The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), daily email, 28 August 2025: It is a troubling sign of the times, and the crisis…
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George Washington, President of George Mason University (GMU) has Defiance; Against What is Wrong
George Washington, President of George Mason University (GMU) has Defiance, taking a stand against what is wrong. From The Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 August 2025: GMU President Refuses to Apologize for Diversity Efforts, Lawyer Calls Ed. Dept. Claims ‘Absurd’ by Katherine Mangan and Jasper Smith. In a 10-page letter,…
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![Andrew James Brown: Open Education and Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”.](https://drnevillebuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-26-Imoaka-Shinichiros-essay-The-Position-of-a-Free-Religious-Person.webp)
Andrew James Brown: Open Education and Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”.
Andrew James Brown provides Open Education and an introduction to Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”. I recommend listen to the YouTube video. Or read the transcription of Selected Essays by Imaoka Shin’ichiro [今岡信一良] (1881-1988). School Education and Religion (2) [1956] Shōwa 31 [1956] in…
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Future of the History Discipline and History Careers Outside Universities
Letter (email) from Stuart Forbes Macintyre, to Dr Neville Buch, 20 May 2017 at 16:07: We know from the work done on public engagement in history (first in the US and then by Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton at UTS) that studying history is a relatively minor form of participation and that…
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Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking
We have all experience it: Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking. Here is a number which is meaningless: 3.6 millions are on Centrelink payments. Phillips and Narayanan (2021) of the ANU puts it more meaningful: The Australian social security system spends around $120 billion dollars in cash transfers…
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The new Brisbane Governance is stupid | Right solution for the wrong problem
I must thank, in person, “Just a silly Aussie that makes videos about urbanism in Switzerland and other places,” of the Streets and Scars of City Past. It is the technical evidence in the scholarship of transportation which demonstrates the technical evidence in the scholarship of cognition histories and sociology. Indeed, towards the…
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Propaganda and Executive University Rhetoric
‘We can’t ask to turn the clock back. The resources just aren’t there’ As he takes up the presidency of Universities UK, Manchester Met vice-chancellor Malcolm Press today speaks to Times Higher Education about the financial challenges institutions face – and he’s under no illusions. “The government won’t always be able to do everything we…
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An Open Letter for Equity
By Dr Neville Buch, the opinions expressed are the author’s own On 24 July 2025, an “Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Restoring Equity in Higher Education” was produced by a distinguished group of individuals, “with a range of political beliefs whose contributions to Australian life owe significantly to our Bachelor of…