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 be presenting the paper, Rethinking School: Historical Forgetfulness and Educationalist Theory 1971–89. On the same day I will be chairing a session called, “Teaching and Doing History in a Digital Age.” A 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.” We now have the situation of the impossible (as in for both student-learning and employment for those who deliver) assessment programs that the fool policy-makers (not all policy-makers are fools; there are those who are resisting) have given teachers and researchers.
I have begun 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 of Queensland, and am due for the recognition of the high-level scholarly work I do. Last week I was the only Australian to perform at an international forum in the field of intellectual history.
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