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Category Archives: Research & Study
74. The Purpose of Education – a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy?
Is education most commonly treated purely as an instrumental tool (e.g. to get a job), or as a path to self-development, or both? How can a balance between objectives be achieved in public education? Thor May Brisbane, 2014 Preface: This … Continue reading
73. Some Uses and Misuses of Reason
When can the use of reason lead to better lives and societies, and when can it undermine them? Thor May Brisbane, 2014 Thinking point: The Australian Attorney General, George Brandis has just declared that arguments for climate change are irrational and that … Continue reading
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51. Getting It Done, Or Your Gift For Mine? – An Echo from the Philippines
On a stopover in Manila a while back, I wandered into a bookshop, looking for something that could give me a fix on “the” cultural mindset of the Philippines. This is a country with which I have had only brief … Continue reading
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50. Why Write A PhD?
note: here are further articles dealing with the research process and the connundrums of PhD study : Pissing On Every Lamp Post : the paradox of scholarship; The Doctor’s Dilemma – Reading versus Active Experience; How To Get The Degree … Continue reading
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27. How to Get The Degree You Want, OR Are You A Fake?
Two topics are put through the mincer here. The preliminary sections are a discussion about the nature, meaning and value of academic qualifications. The second part (the original posting) puts a spotlight on one university (Greenwich University, Hawaii) which actually … Continue reading
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The paradox of scholarship: pissing on every lamp post
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants [Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727] Newton’s comment encapsulates the ideal of scholarship, though not its constant outcome. Scholarship is often confused with … Continue reading
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16. Individualism or the Group ?
Individualism or the Group? Thor May Wuhan, China 2001 The lady on BBC radio was making a pitch to teach social anthropology to the unwashed masses of the air-waves. There is, she said, a range of cultural types whose two extremes are … Continue reading
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