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Critical and Scientific Thinking
A Short Introduction
2022 || Paperback || Michael Vlerick || Open Press Tilburg University
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 University in Transition
2024 || Paperback || Henk Kummeling e.a. || Publishers of Trial and Error || met inkijkexemplaar
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...
Asking Questions About Asking Questions on the Anthropocene
An interschool symposium
2023 || Paperback || Karim Schelkens Arnold Smeets || Open Press Tilburg University
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Kritisch en Wetenschappelijk Denken
Een Korte Introductie
2022 || Paperback || Michael Vlerick || Open Press Tilburg University
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...
Educational Utopias
Liber Amicorum for Prof. Dr. Alkeline van Lenning
2023 || Paperback || Gerwin Van der Laan || Open Press Tilburg University || met inkijkexemplaar
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...
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies
2023 || Paperback || Dimitar Shterionov || Open Press Tilburg University || met inkijkexemplaar
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...
Local and Regional Development / 2nd edition
2016 || Paperback || Andy Pike e.a. || Taylor & Francis
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...
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages
15 June 2023
2023 || Paperback || Dimitar Shterionov || Open Press Tilburg University || met inkijkexemplaar
This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Sign and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL 2023), hosted by the 24th Annual Con- ference of The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023). This workshop is a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages.
Cognitive Communication - its theory introduced
Part 3 Relationship between Energy, Entropy, and Information Level
2023 || Paperback || Werner Rupprecht || Bookmundo || met inkijkexemplaar
The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. The links between information theoretical entropy and thermodynamic entropy and energy are explained in detail.
This series of booklets is particularly valuable for lecturers and students of communication and cognitive sciences and border areas, as well as brain researchers, philosophers, media technicians, linguists and...
Contemporary Human Geography
Culture, Globalization, Landscape
2018 || Paperback || Mona Domosh e.a. || Macmillan
More than any other book for the introductory human geography course, Contemporary Human Geography shows what geographers actually do—how they conduct research, develop new insights, teach us about the world from a geographer’s perspective, and apply their skills in a wide range of academic and professional pursuits.
Contemporary Human Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creat...