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Category: Concepts in UQ Philosophy and History
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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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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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A Message to the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools
I am responding to the below-mentioned Campaign and the thinking in reaction to a meme, posted on the Facebook page of the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools. “This, in a nutshell, is why [meme] there should be no religious instruction in public schools. It doesn’t get more divisive and judgemental than this.…
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THE CLASSICS CURRICULUM AT UQ 1911-1949. PART 2: The Design of Curriculum
Compared to the history and philosophy areas of universities in the early twentieth century, the curriculum of the Classics changed little. There was still change. There were always minor changes, across the curriculum in proscribed books and authors, and adjustments in lecture notes. More significant change came in curriculum re-structuring and changing the name of…
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THE PHILOSOPHY CURRICULUM AT UQ 1911-1949. PART 2: The Design of Curriculum
Compared to the others of the University curriculum, in particular to modern history, the area of philosophy changed little in the period 1911-1949. However, the scoping of the school changed dramatically, and the change in the curriculum design of the same lessons is what changed significantly over the years. When the University began the ‘school’…
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THE HISTORY CURRICULUM AT UQ 1911-1949. PART 2: The Design of Curriculum
What did the University of Queensland teach under the different disguises of ‘History’ before 1949? It began as British History, Constitutional History, and Economics. First, British history was the one lecture course in 1911-1913, with two lecture sets, “The Anglo-Saxon Period” and “The Transition from Norman Despotism to the Medieval Parliamentary Monarchy.” It was…