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Higher Education Intellectual Ethos 1989-2024: A Review of Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document
A Review of Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document (PDF Link) Conclusion: The challenge in correcting the views of the Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document is that the problems are what are missing; it is argument of negativity which in the social psychology of the country, fewer minds can grapple with the Document’s: …
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What it Takes in Education: Demythologising Education
Dave (my dear friend), many thanks. It is an extraordinary video and message for our times. I appreciate very much participation in our common passion: education. You know, it is a factor of common humanity, as much as the technocrats and bio-dispositionists want to work to undermine the remaining defences of comprehensive…
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The Buch Test: A Updated and Reverse “Turing Test”. Was “The Falseness of A.I. Over-Optimism”
[name removed], you say, “Written by me, ChatGPT and Bing.” Well, how can I, and others, understand your ability to research and understand your research, when A.I. is involved to the extend of textual formulation to mimic “something else” which we call intelligence? A.I. optimists do not get it. No, we do not, “Get…
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The Importance of the Participation Triple-Video Art Installation and Theory: Neville Socially on a Saturday, Sunday, Friday – Afternoon, Evening, Morning
Abstract: Participation Triple-Video Art Installation and Theory, examining The Meet-Up World. ***** ART INSTALLATION: PANEL DESCRIPTION It is a long story. An occasion for a face-to-face chat, where human beings can touch. Neville socially on a Sunday afternoon (I thought it was Saturday): Well, no wonder, “Poor, Ruth!” …
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Critical Theory, Puritan-ART World, and Progressivism
I have been talking about critical theory in among many of my blog articles and posts, and I am concerned that concept needs to untangled truth from the criticisms of the Puritan world and John Bunyan’s idea of progressivism. Here is a section of a definition from Wikipedia that sums up well…
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Culture-History War in Educationalist Theory and Design
For scholars in any field there are moments when reading what a journalist has written, your heart sinks. Why the propaganda wars? Why the culture-history wars? Christopher Harris’ piece in The Sydney Morning Herald (February 15, 2024, online) is such an occasion. The truth is that there are “learning…
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Re: What is happening in Higher Education Policy? An answer from the federal department
Dear Friends, I had made inquiries on the particular higher education policy reforms which were occurring, from the position of the federal government. I sent my enquiry off, back in October, to the PMO and it was redirected straight away to the department. I had no answer until today. The answer is we will have to wait…
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Why I am not a Rationalist, but a Humanist…A Research Note
“The great obstacle that reason (Vernunft) puts in its own way arises from the side of the intellect (Verstand) and the entirely justified criteria it has established for its own purposes, that is, for quenching our thirst, and meeting our need, for knowledge and cognition… The need of reason is not inspired by the…
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The Spiral history theory of Stupidity: Getting Stuck in Time-Space, and Personal Breakout of Historical Cognition Patterns
In the blog article, “Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History“, I introduced the idea of “the spiral history theory of stupidity.” What I stated was: Historical forgetfulness leads a population into the spiral history theory of stupidity. History, Memory, Cognition, and a Model of Time-Space to explain human failure, are the elements which goes into…
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The Effort for Queensland Public Service Workforce Statistics, and Who Pays for Knowledge?
A colleague of mine (and a “colleague of mind”) wanted to help us — the South East Queensland Community — with a project in urban sociology. He wrote to the Queensland Public Service Commission (QPSC), regarding workforce profiles for the Queensland Public Service dating back to at least 1959. The QPSC replied they currently produces…