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Australia's conservative government announced plans Friday to double university fees for humanities students, in a bid to push people into more useful, "job-relevant" courses like maths and science.
Under the proposal—which critics panned as an "ideological assault"—the cost of degrees like history or cultural studies will rise up to 113 percent to around US$29,000, while other courses such as nursing and information technology will become cheaper.
Education Minister Dan Tehan—an arts graduate with two advanced degrees in international relations—said the government wanted to corral young people towards "jobs of the future" to boost the country's economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
"If you are wanting to do philosophy, which will be great for your critical thinking, also think about doing IT," Tehan said.
The plan would help pay for an additional 39,000 university places by 2023 and for cost cuts for courses like science, agriculture, maths and languages.
[...] "I'm an arts graduate and so is the minister for education so I'm not sure you can draw the conclusion that we're completely unemployable," said opposition lawmaker Tanya Plibersek.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:26AM (6 children)
That's the first time I've heard somebody claim Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, started post-modernism. His suggestion of using criminality as a measure of a society's progress was the first time somebody thought of using empiricism instead of postulates, like those who came before him had done. His was a positive, constructive theory. Post-modernists only de-construct.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 23 2020, @07:06AM (4 children)
There always is a first time for everything, mon ami!
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203792834 [taylorfrancis.com]
No post-structuralism or Deconstruction without a structuralist, promoting "social facts", in the first place, eh?
Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], such as it is.
Quite the list of usual suspects, including Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, and Michel Foucault.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @09:20AM
No collective without collectivism, Giovanni Gentile was indebted to the works of Marx and Hegel, eh?
Thanks for clearing that up.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @01:16PM (2 children)
Pfft. Please. They're all French
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday June 24 2020, @07:16PM (1 child)
And you are not? Nobody's perfect!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:10AM
especially the French.
i kid, i kid.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @07:10AM
His underlying idea was that of "institutions." Institutions under his view are social constructs of customs, beliefs, behaviors that are important to and instituted by the collectivism of society. Once you understand society and institutions in that way, it isn't that far of a step to apply that idea to constructs like morality, human nature, science, language, and social progress. And, once you do that, you get postmodernism.