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The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, https://www.academia.edu/123734421/The_Role_of_the_Intellectual_in_the_Australian_Economy The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy In 2002 Raewyn Connell and Julian Wood produced an article in the Journal of Sociology called, “Globalization and scientific labour: patterns in a life-history study of intellectual workers in the periphery.” The theme of my article is a critical question of…
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What are real solutions?
Featured Image: Paid. Invoice #: 00235-2024. 240909.highres.aitool In 1966, Abraham Maslow, originator of the Hierarchy of Needs, made this well-known observation: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.” This type of cognitive bias became known…
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This is WHY we need paid professional community education: To Destroy the Lies Before they Grow
Dear friends To Destroy the Lies Before the Grow: Community Education, paid because it cannot survive if it is not funded. It is a Call for true Public Education in Brisbane, South-East Queensland, Queensland. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/world/europe/grenfell-tower-fire-inquiry-report-uk.html?smid=url-share — Findings from the Final Report of Grenfell Tower Fire A…
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Why Politicians Cannot Make Intelligent Captain’s Call.
Higher education works theoretically as a collegial enterprise. In denial of the culture-history nonsense, a collegial process does not end up in a mess of indecision, if the principles of collegial dialogue are adhered to. There are more agreement than disagreement among intellectuals, and it is only the nonsense of the culture-history ‘know-nothing’ that says…
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Ruth at the Turn of the Century
His work so absorbed him. Could she hear him? Could she see him? All aglow was his room, Dazed in this light. He would touch her, He would hold her. Laughing as they danced, Highest colours touching others. Did her eyes at the turn of the century, Tell me plainly. … In the still light…
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Redirecting the Anger at the Blips
“And it seems possible now, as online television, to service seriously thinking community workers. The best way to deal with the anger, at the blip who deliberate forced closures of community enterprises, is to restore community enterprises anew against the wishes of the blips.” Let’s be clear, our economy is structured for…
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“School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools
An examination of the Problem of ‘Schooling’ and Sociological-Person Models. “The literature traditionally goes to the political and legal landscapes but philosophically ignores the language.” “[Buch] points out that such approaches are based on confusing ideological labels. For the field of studies-in-religion, the thinking has changed greatly as conceptual schemas and this…
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What you are seeing in the Image of Australian Employment
Featured Image: What the Image is, is a story of the cowboy employment industry in Australia and how governments have continued to allow a deregulated industry to rip off the taxpayer. It is time for accountability against the corrupt (intellectually if not by law). In this example, are three images…
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Would our Australian “history” industry push for this “new” global “innovation” to be re-established in Australian universities?
“Once again, there are signs of deep trouble for the humanities in higher education — in the Western world, if not the world as a whole. News of closures trickles in relentlessly. At New Zealand’s Victoria University, ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian were all given the ax. Michigan’s Cornerstone University, in Grand Rapids, reduced and…