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Simulated learning
IN GILLES DELEUZE’S ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’, the philosopher compares a discipline society in which one is...
Remaking universities
CAN WE GRIEVE not for a person but for an institution? Should we be angry over possibilities destroyed, young...
what did you want to be when you grew up?
dad, did you ever want to live in a treehouse with a monkey butler? wear a helmet made of...
Following the song
Click here to listen to Lisa Fuller read ‘Following the song’. Western knowledge is increasingly problematic because of its dominance over other...
Schooled
TOWARDS THE END of Educated, her harrowing memoir of an Idaho childhood with Mormon survivalist parents, Tara Westover concludes:...
Double
ALL THE ROADS in this part of town are bitumen, so Odette’s piece-of-shit Toyota does fine, even in the...
Holding the baby
Where I live, what I earn and my level of education: these will all influence not only my decision to have a baby but the experiences that baby will then have. These four factors – education, geography, wealth and birth rate – loop around one another in infinite iterations. People in regional and remote Australia have more children younger; they also have lower levels of educational attainment.
The reading revolution
WHEN BOB FITZGERALD, Chief Inspector of Blacktown Police Area Command, was in Year 4, he stole a book from...
By design
I WAS TREMBLING. Not because I was about to do something risky or scary – quite the opposite. This...
Compulsory wellbeing
SUCH GREAT PAY and all those holidays. Plus you only work from nine ’til three…is often the response a...
Follow the leader
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES ARE unsettled. There is no doubt they are facing significant and real challenges. Many of their buildings have...
The colonial storytelling of good intent
There was once a time when all spoke the same language, no matter the skin, and so there was...
