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Academic Skills for Interdisciplinary Studies
revised Edition
2019 || Paperback || Koen van der Gaast e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
What's a theoretical framework for? How do you effectively present your data in a figure? What's the secret to a good presentation?
As an interdisciplinary student, you delve into theories and research methods from a whole range of disciplines. Academic skills are the tools that you can use to take in, develop, integrate and question knowledge. This guide provides specific instructions, tips and examples to help students develop these skills, both during and after their studies.
As academic e...
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Anthropologists Wanted
Why Organizations Need Anthropology
2021 || Paperback || Laurens Bakker e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
In 'Anthropologists Wanted. Why Organizations Need Anthropology' the authors present a broad and inspiring survey of anthropologists in the job market. What in fact is anthropology? What skills do anthropologists have? Where do they work? How do they add value in the workplace, according to the people who hire them? And how can anthropologists showcase their qualities to employers? The book contains unique insights for anyone who plans to study, is studying, or has studied anthropology. And f...
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Win Win Win
If You Want to Go Far, Go Together
2021 || Paperback || Daniel Bernardus e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Would you like to build greater trust in your relationships? Discuss this book together.
Trusting relationships are key to economics and life: a student wants to win a prestigious business contest with this insight, but must first prevent her team from falling apart.
Discover a mirror on our way of dealing with others that is not always comfortable, but inspiring and ultimately very rewarding.
Buy this book for yourself or as a gift to help people relate together more effectively.
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Meaningful Assessment in Interdisciplinary Education
A Practical Handbook for University Teachers
2021 || Paperback || Ilja Boor e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
Today’s university lecturers are faced with the challenge of educating students to see beyond the limits of their own discipline and to come up with innovative solutions to societal challenges. Many lecturers would like to put more emphasis on teaching students how to integrate diverse forms of knowledge, work together in teams, critically reflect and become self-regulated learners. These lecturers are breaking down the silos of scientific disciplines as well as the barriers between academi...
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Behaviour in the Classroom
The Practical Guide
2024 || Paperback || Olivia Dear e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Behaviour in the Classroom, The Practical Guide is for any teacher who wants to make their classroom environment a better one for children to learn in. Olivia Dear and Sarah Dear, drawing on their diverse experiences, break down the seemingly intuitive skills that effective teachers possess into manageable steps any teacher can learn. It transcends one-size-fits-all solutions, offering a nuanced approach to classroom management. The authors translate the complexities of behaviour research int...
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Cultural Interactions
Conflict and Cooperation
2022 || Paperback || Frans-Willem Korsten || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
The common saying is that people have a culture. This book argues that people live a culture – which may explain why they are so affectively attached to it. By considering cultural interactions on a global scale, this book investigates how cultures can be understood in terms of conflict and cooperation, in relation to the nationstate, a multiplicity of worlds, society, civilization and community. It considers how culture is at the basis of the construction of individual and collective selve...
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Chapters on Interdisciplinary Research and Research Skills
2020 || Paperback || Koen van der Gaast e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
This book is a special edition, compiled for to the MSc Course Research Methodologies as taught at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. It is a compilation of useful chapters from several sources on how to structure, set up, carry out and write up your (thesis) research to aid you in writing your research plan. Next to that it acts as a companion during your thesis research. After introducing you to the philosophy of scientific research, subsequent chapters ...
History and Philosophy of the Humanities
An Introduction
2019 || Paperback || Michiel Leezenberg e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction presents a reasoned overview of the conceptual and historical backgrounds of the humanities.
The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common that distinguishes them from, say, physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities may seem se...
Wicked Philosophy
philosophy of Science and Vision Development for Complex Problems
2018 || Paperback || Coyan Tromp || Amsterdam University Press
Wicked Philosophy. Philosophy of Science and Vision Development for Complex Problems provides an overview of the philosophy of the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, and explores how insights from these three domains can be integrated to help find solutions for the complex, 'wicked' problems we are currently facing. The core of a new science-based vision is complexity thinking, offering a meta-position for navigating alternative paradigms and making informed choices of ...