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David Beckett Department of Vocational Education and Training University of Melbourne [email protected] Dr David Beckett, lecturer in VET, at The University of Melbourne, publishes on professional practice, organisational epistemology, policy analysis and philosophy of education. Contact is welcome: Phone (03)…

The Socjourn has reached the limit of its resources. Serving up to six million hits a month, we need a bigger server. Some revenue comes through advertising, but that accounts for only a fraction of our current costs. We don’t…

Carter G. Woodson, the father of Negro History Week and the author of The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933), wrote “Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it…

Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Facebook ain’t your friend. From the facile and shallow way it connects people to the awesome power it gives authorities to monitor and surveille, Facebook is a technology born not in…

We like to see the world in black and white, good and evil, right and wrong, usually with our side being on the side of right and the other side being on the side of wrong. Therefore, it is refreshing…

Dr. Michael Sosteric | Oct 27, 2011 | Comments 0 Interesting, innovative, and fun, Good Science is an important new text for Social Research Methods courses because of its novel analysis of science, empirical facts, and the evolution of scientific…

Greetings today children, and welcome to my neighborhood. Our word of the day today is “hypocrite.” Can you say that? “Hypocrite? I thought you could, and so can Dr. Mcgettigan. Though he is saying it in a far nicer way,…

On July 4, 2012, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops concluded their Fortnight for Freedom, a pulpit political initiative that is intended to challenge certain aspects of President Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act (AHA). The Bishops are cheezed off because, under…

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published by Trine Day 2010 “That must be them.” Petra took one hand off the steering wheel and pointed to a group of soldiers about two hundred meters away,…