Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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Letter: Education ? All Types of Placement poverty in Australia
TO WHOM IT CONCERNS…who cares? Thanks for the information on what is being discussed in the communities and the media. Yes, we have two reasonable options here in policy: [below and to the ABC link] Free higher education for courses with large fieldwork programs. Or the industries of the industry partnerships in the fieldwork programs contribute significantly to the students’…
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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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What It Takes, Politically, Emotionally-Intelligently, and with Local-Global Intelligence: Public Conservations
Thank you for your email, [name removed]. But the majority of the hoi polloi and the political class do not have any idea of constructing history as entries in dictionaries or mapping tools, let alone a book. In fact the population has become so book lethargic, local history groups are finding it very challenging maintaining their existence. Without the population being encouraged to take…
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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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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 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…
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Public Message on Public Infrastructure in the Lead Up to 2024 BCC and Queensland Elections
WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO LET POLITICIANS AND COUNCILLORS LEAD US DOWN THE PATHWAY OF FAILED POLICY? Brisbane City Council Policy (BCC): Bus over Rail. Queensland Government Policy: Private Financial Interest over Public. It is interesting to think about the Sydney experience. The government’s management of both modes of transport is very poor. Bus services…