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Explaining Neville’s Historiography (Dr Neville Buch ABN 86703686642)
In a conversation with one of the members in the international Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Mathematics Facebook Group, it came to me how I can explain my historiography. The context here is community education and research, but the university academics have missed much in the significance of my work for their own historical conclusions.…
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The United States Tour: American Educationalist Models in an Australian State 1942-2022
Neville Buch, Ph.D., PHA (Qld) The University of Queensland The abstract for the Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America is my invitation for interviews, conversations, and seminar talks across the United States in February 2023. For a century, thinkers in Queensland, imported American models for educationalist theory and practice. The story…
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Cannons’ Hurricane (2022) and an Honest Conversation on Pentecostal Sociology and Theology
I am quite excited to find Cannons’ Hurricane (2022) on YouTube. It opens up an honest conversation on Pentecostal Sociology and Theology in the year 2023 among those interested in the related history of popular culture studies. We are in a cosmic shift for Americanised and populist Christianity. The only way forward for…
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Regarding Our Education Systems Needing Thinking in Contemporaneous Compatibilist Epistemology
The 2022 Australian and New Zealand History of Education (ANZHES) Conference From selections of the ANZHES Newsletter December 2022, with comments. This blog article — call it what you like — “academic”, “populist”, “community”, any political semantics, to ignore it, Minister of Education, cannot be so dismissed. The communities demand an answer on the state…
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Mash of Moby-Pet Shop Boys at the end of the Journey
THE POEM Talking to a man from galilee Go tell that lonesome liar Go tell that midnight rider Tell the gamblin’ ramblin’ backslider. Some people go to church just to signify Trying to make a date with a neighbour’s wife Brother let me tell you just as sure as you’re born You better leave that…
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Oh-oh-oh, you’ll know. Memory and Road Trips
Time: 10:30 a.m. Date: 4 December 2022 Place: Quest Wodonga, 46 Reid St, Wodonga VIC 3690. Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom Well, who am I to keep you down? It’s only right that you should play the way you feel it But listen carefully to the sound of your…
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2021 Australian University Reputational Rankings for History-Philosophy-Theology
Reputation is everything they say. Reputation matters because public education fails. One of my earlier career was working in the Office of the Vice-Chancellor in communication research, and that involved analysing the results of The Times Higher Education various rankings. The Office never put much weight on the accuracy of any university rankings. It was…
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Neo-Orthodoxy Today from Historical Legacy
Introduction Today, we hear stories of Orthodox Judaism, and in this recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, we learn that ‘new orthodoxy’ is a ‘thing’. Image: Online story, Sylvia Goodman. ‘Alternative’ or ‘Sham’? Yeshiva U. Created a New LGBTQ Club — but Won’t Recognize the One That Sued, The Chronicle of Higher…
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More Than This: “I could feel at the time there was no way of knowing” (Nihilism but beyond it)
Rorty Music: Nihilism but beyond it Fallen leaves in the night on the stable sea tide… I could feel at the time There was no way of knowing Fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they’re blowing? As free as the wind Hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no…
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Historical Amnesia and Uncovering School History
Schools and education policy “It has become commonplace to remark that historians of education have become less interested in schools and schooling, and more interested in a wider range of educational institutions, not to mention education that takes place beyond formal organizations. Gary McCulloch has explored in detail the many different directions that historians…