The critic...“has realised that the chief way we relate to history today is as one big Hollywood costume drama”. Our country, and the world in the early 21st century, are being edged-on into stupidity by reactionary thinkers who are misguided into believing that they...
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...
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...
“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...
The TASA Sociology of Education special interest group is inviting expressions of interest for presentations in a symposium for Social Sciences Week called ‘Levelling the Field - how do diverse students negotiate education systems between constraints and...
TO EVERY AUSTRALIAN CHANCELLOR, VICE-CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY SENATOR, UNIVERSITY COUNCILLER, STATE AND FEDERAL MINISTER, PARLIAMENTARY SENATOR, AND MUNICIPAL COUNCILLOR AND MAYOR. YOU ARE NOT THINKING CLEARLY, COMPREHENSIVELY, DEEPLY (as in 'deep...
THE GLOBAL PROBLEM: MY LOCAL-REGIONAL-NATIONAL ACADEMIC AND POPULAR SCHOLARLY WORK Robert Cady Saler (2024). "Death to the World" and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics, T&T Clark (Bloomsbury), pp. 152, e-book US$ 122.41 discounted, hardcover US$ 153.00. A...
Dear friends, Here is a prime example in the outcome of 30 years' failure in higher education policies: “There are forums on contract cheating writers and I’ve seen them discuss that students have been caught for using AI and...
"... Last Friday, Salem Media Group announced that it had removed the fabulist film 2,000 Mules from its platform and said it would no longer distribute either the movie or an accompanying book by the right-wing activist and Trump-pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza. It...