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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.

This reader is an adaptation of the fourth edition of Research Methods in Psychology by Jhangiani, Chiang, Cuttler & Leighton. It also adapts a chapter from Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices, by Bhattatcherjee This work (and, for that matter, both books it adapts from) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The goal of this adaptation is to improve the fit of the material to the Research Skills pre-msc course, which focuses on business research rather than psychological research (though the disciplines share many similarities). To this end, this reader selects and adapts a set of relevant chapters from the original book. A more detailed list of changes can be found at the end of the book.

This reader is a ‘living document’, in the sense that material is changed on an annual basis to improve this fit with the course it is associated with.

Wil je jouw leerlingen helpen om hun taal- en leesvaardigheden naar een hoger niveau te tillen? Dan is “De Wetenschap van Woorden” precies wat je zoekt! Dit boek, samengesteld door laatstejaars studenten van de Academische Opleiding Leraar Basisonderwijs (studiejaar 2023-2024) aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, biedt een verkenning van onderzoek naar evidence-based interventies en hoe je deze interventies kunt vertalen naar de klas.
Van het bevorderen van ontluikende en beginnende geletterdheid tot het verbeteren van begrijpend lezen, “De Wetenschap van Woorden” is een praktische handleiding voor effectief taal- en leesonderwijs. Gebaseerd op de meest recente wetenschappelijke inzichten, biedt dit boek praktische tips, strategieën en activiteiten die zijn ontworpen om de taal- en leesvaardigheid van leerlingen te verbeteren en hopelijk ook hun liefde voor taal te stimuleren.
Het boek is tot stand gekomen met als doel leerkrachten te voorzien van actuele wetenschappelijke inzichten en concrete strategieën om hun onderwijspraktijk te verrijken. Of je nu een beginnende leerkracht bent of een doorgewinterde professional, dit boek zal je inspireren, informeren en ondersteunen bij het creëren van een stimulerende leeromgeving waarin elke leerling kan gedijen.

Dit boek is geschreven door Studenten van de Academische Opleiding Leraar Basisonderwijs 2023-2024

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The handbook features a collection of concrete activities and ideas that academics teaching in different programmes can use to:

• help first-year students learn to learn in ways required in higher education, and/or
• revise their own approaches to assessment, learning and teaching, in order to make higher education more inclusive and set diverse students up for success.

The handbook can be used primarily by academics who teach first-year students. However, it can also help those facilitating professional development at higher education institutions, since research-based ideas will be contextualised for different disciplines and expressed in language clear to those not trained as educators.

To download a pdf version of the book, please visit https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/book/203

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In this book, the methodological approach to the topic of climate change focuses on the notion of a philosophical tool or method. A philosophical tool is a particular philosophical concept or distinction, a philosophical method is a more general way of thinking about a problem that gives us new insights about the problem, in our case climate change.  What this book attempts to do is apply a number of these tools and methods to the problem of climate change.

This book was created as an open educational resource in the course Philosophy beyond Academia at the University of Groningen in 2024. Except for this introduction, all of the chapters have been created by students of the MA Philosophy Programme of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen.

This book is the second book in a series of open educational resources applying philosophical tools and methods to a particular topic. In the past, philosophical tools and methods were applied to the topic of migration in the open educational resource Migration: A Philosophical Toolkit.

‘Learning Russian through films A2-B1’is an open online textbook. It combines task-, content- and film-based learning approaches, contextualised via films depicting Soviet everyday life in the 1950-1980s. As learners (re-)watch these film episodes repeatedly, they are (re-)exposed to authentic Russian language and learn gradually without an explicit grammar focus. Pre-tasks introduce key vocabulary and essential aspects of Soviet daily culture, while the final tasks encourage students to apply and personalise their understanding of the content via recording vlogs, role-playing and impersonating film characters in spin-off scenes.