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Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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Understanding possible global impacts upon Australian universities
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 14 March 2025 Re: Following on from the previous email about Nicholas B. Dirks’ thinking. Dear Vice-Chancellors, Another informative article from Nicholas B. Dirks. Following the email below, at the bottom of this blog. Remember…
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MBH Project on the Public History International Map; Isn’t it time for State and Council Funding to Keep the MBH Project Going?
Now that the MBH Project is on the Public History International Map, Isn’t it time for State and Council Funding to Keep the MBH Project Going? BUSINESS Office: 18 Callendar St, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 22 February 2025 Re: 2024 World Conference of Public History: follow up Dear South-East…
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The Spiral Historiography of Radical-Liberal-Conservative: Vague Definitions and Practices
A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. It does not work as empirical observations of the political games in rhetoric, where persons try foolishly to rationalise their own political prejudices. That foolish worldview is full of vague definitions and practices. The model untangles the confusion into a better structured…
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THE THIRD PATHWAY
Image: “The Third Pathway” I cannot upgrade to the commercial version of ClickCharts because I am financially broke. You are getting this professional, educational, lesson for free. We live in a world of Power and Thought. Both are inescapable as concepts in the thinking. This article is about interpreting Nietzsche correctly…
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Buckley’s Up With Liberalism Mind-Twister
“Liberalism is the refuge favored by intellectual cowardice, because the essence of the liberal’s position is that he has no position.” The quote is Buckley’s Up With Liberalism Mind-Twister. It is one of the great political falsehoods of the late twentieth century. William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) is best known for founding…
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The Solutions in the History Industry Redeeming itself from the Curse of Nostalgia (heads in the sands of time)
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing everywhere, it’s tempting to think that Maggie was just ahead of her time.…
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The difficulty Teaching the Undereducated on Social Media
A response by social media participant had initiated some preliminary research gathering. The response was to a post I had put up: “Both the culture and religion are in a strange, binary, process of synthesis—a tension, but often a conflated bringing-together of utopian pacificism and a technological drive for…
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Queensland Government’s inability to deal with histories
Dear friends, A message not from me, but, as one of the many Queensland public, I support. “Queensland Government’s inability to deal with histories.” Queensland Ignored Its Own Bicentenary Queensland Ignored Its Own Bicentenary Cultural Amnesia In Queensland: A Bicentenary Missed Cultural Amnesia In Queensland: A Bicentenary Missed …
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Failures in/on Higher Education Economics; the solutions are a start in policy reversal, against commodification
Failures in/on Higher Education Economics; the solutions are a start in policy reversal, against commodification. ———- Forwarded message ——— From: Neville Buch <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 10:35 Subject: Re: No legitimisation To: Lisa Featherstone <[email protected]> Cc: UQ VC OFFICE <[email protected]> Dear Lisa, Thank you, but… …
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Ontological Working Conclusions
Definitional phrasing copied and pasted from Wikipedia. “genuinely reflecting on, and responding to, the needs, demands, and expectations of teaching about teaching within the academy”. John Loughran[1] “The sociology of sociology is a topic of sociology that combines social theories with analysis of the effect of socio-historical contexts in sociological intellectual production.” (Wikipedia).…