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Dit toegankelijke studieboek geeft een multidisciplinair overzicht van theorieën, praktijken en instrumenten in de publieke inkoop. Het beschrijft het wat en waarom van publieke inkoop en geeft professionals en studenten in het hoger onderwijs inzicht in hoe op een moderne manier ingekocht kan worden in de publieke sector. Centraal staat hoe publieke organisaties via de inkoop van werken, leveringen of diensten op een verantwoorde manier publieke waarde kunnen creëren en behouden.

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Studenten Nederlands die druk aan een paper werkten, scholieren in het middelbaar onderwijs die hun mondeling over de literatuurlijst voorbereidden, journalisten die in allerijl een portret over een schrijver moesten maken, docenten, uitgevers – allemaal hebben ze in het verleden hun toevlucht gezocht bij het Kritisch Literatuur Lexicon, de serie bruine banden met de rugtitel in helder geel die je in vrijwel iedere bibliotheek in Nederland kon vinden.

In die banden bevond zich een losbladig...

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...

Every university is a community of ambitious people. People who love challenges and see new opportunities. A university is part of a society: it tries to understand it to contribute to its wellbeing. How can we do that in today’s world? When can we say that a university is ‘good’? And how can we explain to society what the university is good for? These are the questions that the contributors to this volume tackle in their critical reflections.

The reflection on the university does not t...

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...

Do Europeans really feel European? Do they look at the future Times with confidence or concern? Do they trust each other, and do they show solidarity? How do they think about migration and the refugee influx? Do they want a greener Europe, and at what cost? Are democracy and human rights ingrained in Europe or are they eroding?

A new edition of the Atlas of European Values answers these and other questions related to pressing issues such as identity, welfare, migration, sustainability, solida...

An open educational and open-ended resource for whomever is interested in philosophical thinking. In this scholarly handbook you find two kinds of chapters. First, there are chapters that provide a broad introduction into a specific philosophical subdiscipline, such as political philosophy, epistemology or metaphysics. As this collection covers most of the sub-disciplines currently taught at Western philosophy departments, you can legitimately claim that you have been introduced to Western â€...

Technology and Regulation (TechReg) is an international journal of law, technology and society, with an interdisciplinary identity. TechReg provides an online platform for disseminating original research on the legal and regulatory challenges posed by existing and emerging technologies (and their applications) including, but by no means limited to, the Internet and digital technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energ...

‘Citizen sensing’, framed as grassroots-driven monitoring initiatives based on sensor technology, is increasingly entering the debate on environmental risk governance. Although through a possible initial conflict, citizen sensing may ultimately have the potential to contribute to institutional risk governance. Building on previous empirical research based on a combination ofmethods, including ethnographical research, descriptive analysis and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Be...