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Category: Important Public Statement
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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 consider as one of the best community educators in theology and…
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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 Queensland cognition historian who has explained the set of…
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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 to the subject matter and, when situated in faculties of education, the contextual power of teacher education programs. Historians of education in…
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TASA Sociology of Education SIG Social Sciences Week Event: Expressions of Interest
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 opportunities?’ This half day event on 10 September will examine the current state of different…
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Hey, you, out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old; Can you feel me?
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 knowledge,’ so as not to be seen as stupid in the rollout of history), WIDELY SCOPED, AND INTELLIGENTLY. YOUR DISMISSAL HAS…
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The Economic and Intelligent Cost of Not Employing or Contracting the Best and Leading Scholar: Locally, Regionally, and Nationally
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 MAJOR WAY TO A SOLUTION: A SHIFT IN SPIRAL HISTORIOGRAPHY David Fergusson (2024). Reformed Humanism: Essays on Christian Doctrine,…
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How to reverse 30 years in higher education policy?
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 come back to have real people write things for them.” Why? …
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Spiral Historiography: 1. Widely-Believed Falsehood, 2. Accountability, 3. Falsehood Retreats, 4. Historical Forgetfulness
“… 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 also issued an apology to Mark Andrews, a Georgia man whom the film had falsely depicted…
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‘Reckless Race for Dominance’: Is Any Decision-Maker Listening?
I have been making the moral warning, over and over, again and again. Is Any Decision-Maker Listening? From Kevin Roose, reporting from San Francisco, June 4, 2024, in “OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance,” The Washington Post. The members [nine current and former OpenAI employees] say…
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QUESTION: Why the Culture-History Warfare upon Education in Early 21st Century?
This morning’s story, for me, is Patrick Jack’s article in The Higher Education supplement, which examined the fallout in a conflict: Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology of the United Kingdom, with Kamna Patel, associate professor of development studies at University College London (UCL), and, Chair of the Expert Advisory Group,…