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Draft SoFiA Position Statement (1 July 2024)

Draft SoFiA Position Statement (1 July 2024)

“SOFiA is a network of Australians interested in openly exploring issues of life and meaning through reason, philosophy, ethics, religion, science and the arts. We want to explore for ourselves what we can believe and how we can find meaning in our lives.”  ...

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The Challenge to the Educational Authorities

The Challenge to the Educational Authorities

A friend of mine, a person who I consider one of Queensland’s top educators in science, pointed out that, “Most academics are unaware that there are AI designed to write undetected, it's not just chat get.” [joke on ChatGPT; to spell it out for the highly paid fools,...

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Even as I don’t put much weight on numbers…

Even as I don’t put much weight on numbers…

Even though I do not put much weight on the numbers in my scholarship, The University of Queensland keeps wanting to use the numbers in its public relations exercises, and dismisses that something really bad has happened in Queensland education in the last 30 years....

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The Integrity of Learning and the Political Silence

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...

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