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The overall aim of this handbook, Creative and Inclusive Heritage Education, and its accompanying activity book is to provide teachers with the necessary theoretical tools and practical exercises to foster a more inclusive teaching practice using heritage as a vehicle for self-awareness, collective meaning-making and conflict resolution in the learning space. By helping educators to identify and counter exclusionary narratives, by stimulating their interest in their own histories and those of their students, and by engaging in creative heritage work, the handbook and the activity book allow educators to make the best of the social and educational value of heritage.

Collection of activities for ice-breaking, teambuilding, and intercultural empowerment.

This text is accessible to anyone interested in the brain. It is specifically targeted to students and instructors of undergraduate neuroscience or biopsychology courses. It encourages an active exploration of the intersection of neuroscience with other disciplines through a large number of activities, demonstrations, reflection prompts, and critical thinking questions. The book complements material presented in more conventional neuroscience or biopsychology textbooks, portions of which are linked to throughout this text.

Why do human beings interpret their overall experience in terms of selfhood? How was the notion and sense of self shaped at different times and in different cultures? What sort of problems or paradoxes did these constructions face? These lectures address these and related questions by sketching a roadmap of possible theoretical avenues for conceiving of the self, bringing to the foreground its soteriological implications, while also testing this theoretical outlook against insights offered by various disciplines (including philosophy, cognitive science, anthropology, archaeology, psychology, religious studies, intellectual history, and contemplative practices) and in specific historical cultures (ancient India and Greece, the modern West). The resulting journey is a way of practicing hermeneutics, the art of understanding and interpreting experience in its multifarious manifestations (which include different genres of written texts, oral traditions, social structures and practices, various sorts and domains of experience, ideas and ideals). This form of hermeneutics is best understood as ‘global hermeneutic’ both because of its temporal and geographical scope, and because of its interest on a phenomenon so broad and deeply rooted as selfhood. The purpose of the journey is not only descriptive, though. Exploring the cross-cultural spectrum of possible ways of conceiving of the self invites the more existential question of whether any of these possibilities might offer resources for dealing with the tragedies of today’s world, or maybe even saving it from some of them.

An open access pdf and printed version is published via the University of Groningen Press.

On the website of the University Library Special Collections, the digital exhibition “Beyond the Map. Descriptions of the non-European World in Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior” can be found.

Publisher Joan Blaeu (1599-1673), following the example of other cartographic publishers, included extensive accompanying texts with his renowned Atlas. The Dutch-language edition of Atlas Maior, the Grooten Atlas, contains nearly 4,000 pages of text. The texts of 20 selected non-European regions have been subjected to careful analysis by History students of the University of Groningen and presented in a beautiful digital exhibition.

Editor: Jeroen Bos

This is a Cases and Material textbook curating sources on Data Protection and digital Human Rights law. The textbook aims at providing a “one-stop shop” for students, researchers and practitioners studying these dynamic areas of law. The book is designed and written primarily with students of the LLB programme in Technology law (Faculty of Law, University of Groningen) in mind. The need for this textbook as an educational tool came up when we  started teaching a course dedicated to Data protection and digital Human Rights law. We soon realised that there is no equivalent textbook in the market that places together the relevant sources in a structured fashion. Thus, we decided to cover this gap. With that being said, this textbook is equally relevant to any student or to anybody who has an interest in these areas. It was important to us to have online open access educational material that can be accessible to everybody around the world and that can be easily updated given the quick developments in the field.

Circadian Biology is about the adaptation of life to our rotating world, to the Earth’s 24-hour rhythm of day and night.  Not surprisingly, the field has attracted considerable popular and scientific interest from people seeking further study or applications.  This new diversity is exciting and invigorating!  But newcomers may have little or no foundational knowledge on the essential principles and practice of circadian biology, no framework upon which to incorporate their disciplinary experience and expertise.  If this describes you, our intention is to provide you with a Road Map – call it a launching pad, jump start, gateway, or primer – as a first (and hopefully engaging and helpful) step to enter the field and as an entrée to its now voluminous literature.