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...
Concepts in UQ Philosophy and History
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...