Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi-actor and multi-level systems of government and governance and a re-ordering of the international...

Covering both qualitative and quantitative methods, this is a new edition of the essential companion for human and physical geography students. The book has 8 brand new chapters and brings greater diversity of positionality and perspective to the volume.

Critical thinking is one of the biggest hiatuses in our education system. Learning to distinguish sense from nonsense is of great importance in the information age that we live in. In a systematic way, this book helps you to gain insight into, and subsequently eliminate, the most important reasoning errors that we all tend to make. It also helps you to debunk weak and fallacious arguments and unreliable information.

In addition to understanding what critical and scientific thinking entails, y...

The only thing we do not seem to be polarizing on these days is the worry that we are polarizing. To what extent are these worries really justified? In the public as well as scientific debate, much is still unclear about what kind of polarization is taking place, who is polarizing and why, and what the consequences of polarization are. By focusing on the role of social identification and the particular importance of education in our schooled society, I aim to clarify the “what,” “who,�...

Open Science is the great cultural change in academia today. Through the practice of Open Science, the university wants to anchor itself more firmly in society by making the major societal challenges at local, regional and global levels more central to education and research and thus be able to give more back to society.

From this perspective, the question at the heart of this book is: how will the university develop in its core tasks of education, research and societal impact? The universit...

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Kritisch denken is een van de grootste lacunes in ons onderwijs. Zin van onzin leren scheiden is van enorm belang in het informatietijdperk waarin we leven. Dit boek helpt je op systematische wijze inzicht te krijgen in en komaf te maken met de belangrijkste denkfouten die elke mens spontaan maakt. Het helpt je ook drogredenen en onbetrouwbare informatie te ontmaskeren.

Naast inzicht in wat kritisch en wetenschappelijk denken inhoudt, kom je ook meer te weten over wat wetenschap betrouwbaar m...

This Liber Amicorum was composed in honor of our dear colleague and former Dean of University College Tilburg, Prof. Dr. Alkeline van Lenning, who took emeritus status in March 2023 after an academic career of over forty years at Tilburg University. Alkeline van Lenning was professor of multi-disciplinary education and has expertise in the field of character education, interdisciplinary teaching in higher education, feminist theory, and gender. Close colleagues and friends were invited to sha...

This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT-2023)1, hosted by the 24th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023). GITT is set out to focus on genderinclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop brings together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners and language professionals. Also, GITT aims to encourage mu...