Contemporary economic perspectives in education

Efficiency and effectiveness in 'education economics'. Economists are well placed to study education. They are intrinsically interested in (public) spending. They want to examine whether resources are spent in an effective (i.e., doing the right things) and efficient (i.e., doing things right) way. By focusing on educational efficiency, economists can provide intuitive insights that engender more value for money. Moreover, the effectiveness concerns are related to the 'evidence-based education' idea....

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Nederlands, 1 online resource (PDF, 126 pagina's, 1242736 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Henk De Smaele Rechts Vlaanderen

religie en stemgedrag in negentiende-eeuws België

In de loop van de negentiende eeuw komt 'rechts Vlaanderen' tegenover 'links Wallonië' te staan. Bij elke parlementsverkiezing bleek (en blijkt) het Vlaamse kiesgedrag af te wijken van het Waalse. Hoe is het ontstaan van rechts Vlaanderen te verklaren? Historici hebben het Vlaamse kiesgedrag vaak geïnterpreteerd als de politieke vertaling van de economische en culturele 'achterlijkheid' van 'arm Vlaanderen': de Vlaamse samenleving was traditioneel en de kiezers stemden er dus traditioneel. Anderen...

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Nederlands, 1 online resource (480 p.), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2009

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Willem Elders Josquin des Prez and his musical legacy

an introductory guide

A comprehensive guide for early music lovers and performers Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy is the most up-to-date contribution to the research on one of the most important and internationally famous composers of the Renaissance. This monograph offers factual information on the composer as well as insights into his 16th-century and modern reception, a survey of the sources of his music, and a discussion of the thorny issue of authorship. Willem Elders, one of the most distinguished scholars...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 247 pagina's), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Henrico de Gandavo Quaestiones variae Henrico de Gandavo adscriptae

In the process of completing his critical edition of Marcus of Orvieto's Liber de Moralitatibus, Dr. Girard J. Etzkorn happened upon a set of questions attributed to Henry of Ghent at the end of Rome's Bibliotheca Angelica codex 750. These questions are edited in this volume under the proviso 'attributed to' so that scholars may compare the texts with other works of the Ghentian master known to be authentic. Based upon some initial comparisons Etzkorn concludes that the ten questions appear to be...

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Engels, Latijn, 1 online resource (PDF, 120 p., 3380166 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Artistic experimentation in music

an anthology

Essential reading for anyone interested in artistic research applied to music. This book is the first anthology of writings about the emerging subject of artistic experimentation in music. This subject, as part of the cross-disciplinary field of artistic research, cuts across boundaries of the conventional categories of performance practice, music analysis, aesthetics, and music pedagogy. The texts, most of them specially written for this volume, have a common genesis in the explorations of the Orpheus...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 416 pagina's, 5047622 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Franciscus Franciscus de Marchia Reportatio IIA

(Quaestiones in secundum librum Sententiarum) qq. 13-27

The texts edited in this volume deal with angelology and anthropology, and particularly with the nature and the functions of immaterial substances like angels and the human rational soul. Marchia discusses such controversial issues as universal hylomorphism, i.e., whether angels and the rational soul are composed of both matter and form (q. 13), the immortality of the soul (qq. 18-19), and the nature and the object of the intellect and will (qq. 20, 21), as well as the functionality of the angelic...

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Engels, Latijn, 1 online resource (PDF, 413 p., 5214915 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Alessandro Cervino The practice of practising

The process of practising is intrinsic to musical creativity. Practising may primarily be thought of as technical, but it is often also musically meaningful, including elements of interpretation, improvisation, and/or composition. The practice room can be a space in which to explore a field of creative possibilities; a place to experiment and to refine ideas. To date, the literature on practice has been primarily pedagogical and psychological. Little attention is paid to the significance of practice,...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 92 p., 6553373 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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An educational pilgrimage to the United States

travel diary of Raymond Buyse, 1922

In 1922, a young Belgian 'pedologist' named Raymond Buyse accompanied the famous Dr. Ovide Decroly on a study tour of the United States of America. They met with well-known American professors to learn more about the 'scientific' study of the child and especially about applied American psychology. Buyse noted his impressions of the trip in a diary. These are scribbles, sometimes difficult to decipher, written on loose sheets, held together by a ring binder. They reflect the culture shock experienced...

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Frans, Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 150 p., 9458850 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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The return of the deficit

public finance in Belgium over 2000-2010

An in-depth analysis of Belgium's public finance in the recent past. Prior to the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008 Belgium's fiscal balances and debt ratios seemed to be on a firm consolidation path. Today, however, Belgium is facing a major budgetary challenge, albeit to some extent lesser than that of other European countries. A proper understanding of the current situation and the design of the most appropriate policy response always benefit from an in-depth analysis of the recent past....

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 328 pagina's, 6216258 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar modernism

By studying the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book argues that European modernist artists and intellectuals sought a primordial finality in Catholicism. The French poet, writer, and surrealist filmmaker Jean Cocteau converted under the influence of Maritain. For the painters Gino Severini, a pioneer of Futurism, and Otto Van Rees, one of the first Dadaists -both converts- Maritain played the role of spiritual counselor. And when the promoter of...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 212 p., 23624038 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Franciscus Franciscus de Marchia Reportatio IIA

(Quaestiones in secundum librum Sententiarum) qq. 1-12

This commentary exists in two versions: The major version is contained in 17 manuscripts and the critical edition of it is being prepared by a team of specialists led by Prof. Tiziana Suarez-Nani of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. A minor version is found in one Vatican manuscript and is being edited by Prof. Em. Girard J. Etzkorn. The texts edited in this volume all deal with creation, and investigate such central philosophical and theological issues as action, production, and causality,...

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Engels, Latijn, 1 online resource (PDF, 364 p., 3494152 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Unfolding time

studies in temporality in twentieth century music

Questions concerning music and its inextricably intertwined and complex interface with time continue to fascinate musicians and scholars. For performers, the primary perception of music is arguably the way in which it unfolds in 'real time'; while for composers a work appears 'whole and entire', with the presence of the score having the potential to compress, and even eliminate, the perception of time as 'passing'. The paradoxical relationship between these two perspectives, and the subtle mediations...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 198 p., 11781000 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Henricus de Gandavo Henrici de Gandavo Summa

(quaestiones ordinariae), art. XLVII-LII

Volume 30 of the Henrici de Gandavo Opera Omnia series is devoted to Henry's Summa quaestionum ordinariarum, articles 47-52. This section of Henry's Summa deals with the action of the (divine) will; the divine will in relation to the divine intellect; divine beatitude; passion in relation to the divine being; the differences between the divine attributes; and the order of the divine attributes. The critical edition of the text is accompanied by a detailed introduction to the manuscripts and to Henry's...

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Latijn, Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 356 p., 9907825 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Steven Vande Moortele Two-dimensional sonata form

form and cycle in single-movement instrumental works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky

Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian Formenlehre, Caplin's theory of formal functions, and Hepokoski and Darcy's Sonata Theory), it begins by developing an original theoretical framework for the analysis of this type of form...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 220 pagina's, 6776966 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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"Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?"

dedicating Latin works and motets in the sixteenth century

During the sixteenth century, the traditional act of dedicating a text took on a new meaning due to the wider dissemination of the printed book. As the dedication and other paratexts thus became an almost indispensable part of the publication, they merit careful examination by those who study the presentation and impact of any printed work in its context. Paratexts bridge the gap between the outside World of the reading public and the enclosed world of the book, and often present biographical information...

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Engels, Frans, 1 online resource (PDF, 334 p., 14245011 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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"Recevez ce mien petit labeur"

studies in Renaissance music in honour of Ignace Bossuyt

After a distinguished career of more than 35 years, Ignace Bossuyt retired as professor at the Musicology Department of the University of Leuven on October 1st 2007. As an internationally recognised leader in the field of later-16th-century music, Bossuyt consolidated the department's reputation as a centre of excellence in renaissance music studies. Articles in this volume deal with music from the period on which the dedicatee focussed his own research. Subjects discussed include newly discovered...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 312 pagina's, 6443576 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Jeff Lipkes Rehearsals

the German army in Belgium, August 1914

Rehearsals is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 as it affected civilians. Based on extensive eyewitness testimony, the book chronicles events in and around the towns of Liège, Aarschot, Andenne, Tamines, Dinant, and Leuven, where the worst of the German depredations occurred. Without any legitimate pretext, German soldiers killed nearly 6,000 non-combatants, including women and children, and burned some 25,000 homes and other buildings....

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 816 p., 27558051 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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The debate about colour naming in 19th century German philology

selected translations

The Debate about Colour Naming in 19th Century German Philology is comprised of eleven essays illustrating the intensity of interest in colour naming and categorisation that arose in nineteenth century Germany. The themes of each chapter vary in their emphasis on particular theories which lie behind the 'testing' of the colour-naming capacities of 'primitive people' throughout the world, and which move towards new variants of the doctrine of 'evolution.' This selection of work directs itself towards...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 200 pagina's, 1078031 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Bob Elsen, Ignace Pollet, Patrick Develtere Compass for intercultural partnerships

a thought provoking book to deploy the integration of cultures as a source of welfare and tolerance in a glocalising world

As globalisation makes the visual distinction between North and South, East and West disappear, one definitely needs a compass. It still points to magnetic North. For the moment. This book focuses on the added value created by interculturality which is the interaction, exchange and integration between people of different cultures. The reflexions are aimed at profit and non-profit organisations who have the ambition to be enriched and strengthened by their cultural diversity. This publication states...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 162 pagina's, 2438944 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Ezra Dessers Spatial data infrastructures at work

analysing the spatial enablement of public sector processes

Must-read for professionals dealing with SDI and spatial enablement. Spatial data identifies the geographic location of natural and constructed features and boundaries on Earth, and has become increasingly important in various administrative practices. In order to facilitate access, use, and sharing of spatial data among organisations, information is brought together in clustered initiatives known as Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). In Spatial Data Infrastructures at Work, Ezra Dessers introduces...

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Engels, 1 online resource (PDF, 1793620 bytes), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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