The story sounds bizarre but what is really happening in the cognition of university managers after 30 years of neo-liberal policies? On Thursday 4th July, at the Australian Historical Association, at the session on “Histories of Teaching and Teachers,” I will...
Concepts in UQ Philosophy and History
The Craziness of UQ Political Decision Makers
Dear friends, Given my publications -- both academic works and blog articles & essays over recent years, it is clear in the craziness of The UQ Senate in even thinking about removing postgraduate museum studies. The University of...
Spiral Historiography: PhDs for everyone will not improve academia (THE)
This blog article is the first in a new series called, "Spiral Historiography," as part of the parent series known as "Concept in UQ Philosophy and History." It underlies the fact that I am an axillary in the School of History and Philosophy Inquiry, The University...
Disabling Professions and the Silence of our Fool Policy-Makers
Another friend of mine pointed out the many policy overreaches made and that "Learning has been devalued by those in charge for decades. e.g. university as just the acquisition of job tickets. And assignments that reward end products not learning." My friend, who I...
Yet Another Reason to Employ-Contract Me
Dear friends, Yet Another Reason to Employ-Contract Me: the coming wave to Australia of the next stage in the Culture-History Warfare if Trump is elected, in the United States, at the end of year. What the American commentators are saying is, that...
The Evidence that the History of Urban Sociology has not gone forward in the State of Queensland Except for Marginalized Academics and Unpaid Scholars in the Fields
Dear Friends, I have attempted to demonstrate over the past years that our political leaders have not been thinking deeply and accurately. They have been thinking in shallow political terms and in skewed claims (falsehoods). I am not alone in these claims but I am the...
Are you really listening? Or are you being misguided by your advisers.
Dear VC, You have been completely misguided by your conservative advisors, if what is being said is to ignore the activists. See the THE article below. I and the other critical thinkers are at the cutting-edge of our fields and global knowledge. The difference between...
It is not that I do not Care, But You Do Have the Capacity
Dear VC, It is not that I do not care for your difficult position in my campaign to employ and contract the best and leading candidates for employment and contracting. In the United States the situation is far worse. ...
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...