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Over the past years a substantial amount of research has been undertaken relating to the development of powerful learning environments for the acquisition in students of worthwhile educational objectives focussing on conceptual understanding, higher-order cognitive and metacognitive skills, and self-regulated learning. This research has been mainly undertaken from three distinct, but related perspectives in the study of learning and instruction, namely instructional psychology, instructional technology, and instructional design. Against this background a "research community" involving 14 European research teams has recently been initiated with the aim of interactively contributing to the advancement of theory and methodology relating to the design, implementation, and evaluation of powerful learning environments.This volume, based on the plenary lectures and working sessions during the community's third workshop, constitutes a collective output of this research community, focussing on the identification and analysis of major components and dimensions of powerful learning environments aimed at the promotion of deep conceptual and strategic learning in major domains of school curricula, like mathematics, physics, history, and social sciences.In Part I of the volume three chapters present general perspectives on the central theme of the third workshop. In Part II six studies are reported wherein novel learning environments for elementary and secondary mathematics education have been designed, implemented and evaluated. In Part III of the volume another set of five investigations is presented relating to the design, implementation and evaluation of powerful learning environments in other subject-matter domains (physics, history, social sciences) and in teacher training.

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.

The philosophy of Ubuntu in dialogue with Western normative ideas.

First introduction to English-reading audiences of the seminal writings of a key Belgian writer and critic.

Changing influence of Catholicism in secular France.

The first multidisciplinary analysis of one of the most impactful and popular contemporary artworks of recent years.

The needs of newcomers and the provided social assistance.

Perspectives and practices of couples in unconventional Muslim marriages.

A unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid.

The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety as a literary piece of art.

New insights on the reception of Etruscan antiquity in the modernist period.

Critical edition of James of Viterbo's final questions De divinis praedicamentis and his De potentia et actu volendi

The methods, concepts and practices of KU Leuven's Sagalassos Archaeological

Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.

The reception of liberation theology in Andean America

Reference work for musicologists, music theorists, performers, and music lovers

First study on empty places in photography and the Covid-19 pandemic

Insights and recommendations for collaborative governance

New insights on the controversial and often-overlooked postwar large-scale housing estates

The importance of the Belgian contribution to the history of the photonovel

The strengths and opportunities of ageing and the ageing population

Foundations and mechanism of Islamophobia in the West

The Annals of the War in the Low Countries is one of Hugo Grotius' lesser-known works. Grotius expresses a contrarian view of the early revolt, which he presents not as a united battle for the true faith and the ancient liberties of the land but as a protracted and painful struggle, not only with the great power of Spain, but also with discord, selfishness and religious fanaticism among the Dutch. To convey this complex and controversial vision of the foundational years of the Dutch Republic, Grotius chose the worldview and the prose style of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus as his model. His commissioners, however - the States of Holland - did not publish the work when it was finished in 1612; it appeared in print posthumously in 1657.This is the first edition of Grotius' then-influential and well-known Annals of the Dutch Revolt since its initial publication. It presents a critical edition of the Latin text, a fresh modern English translation, and an introduction which covers all aspects of the work, from its conception to its modern reception, underlining the importance of reason of state for Grotius' thought in general.Jan Waszink is a senior researcher at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

History of Japanese Art after 1945 surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese art and is a foundational resource for students and researchers, spans a period of 150 years, from the 1850s to the 2010s. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific period and written by a specialist. The English edition first discusses the formation and evolution of Japanese contemporary art from 1945 to the late 1970s, subsequently deals with the rise of the fine-art museum from the late 1970s to the 1990s, and concludes with an overview of contemporary Japanese art dating from the 1990s to the 2010s. These three parts are preceded by a new introduction that contextualizes both the original Japanese and the English editions and introduces the reader to the emergence of the concept of art (bijutsu) in modern Japan. This English language edition provides valuable reading material that offers a deeper insight into contemporary Japanese art.Kitazawa Noriaki is guest professor at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.Kuresawa Takemi is professor at Tokyo University of Technology.Mitsuda Yuri is professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo.

Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an original species called Homo sapiens, but in the digital age humans remain mimetic creatures: from the development of consciousness to education, aesthetics to politics, mirror neurons to brain plasticity, digital simulations to emotional contagion, (new) fascist insurrections to viral contagion, we are unconsciously formed, deformed, and transformed by the all too human tendency to imitate¿for both good and ill. Crossing disciplines as diverse as philosophy, aesthetics, and politics, Homo Mimeticus proposes a new theory of one of the most influential concepts in western thought (mimesis) to confront some of the hypermimetic challenges of the present and future.Nidesh Lawtoo is professor of philosophy and literature at KU Leuven and principal investigator of the ERC project, Homo Mimeticus.

Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner's introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief's attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village in collaboration with the world-renowned architect Francis Kéré. This final project of Schlingensief is inspired by and illuminates the diverse themes that informed his artistic practice, including coming to terms with the German past, anti-Semitism, critical race theory, and questions of postcolonial (self-)criticism.From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso introduces the notion of the postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk to disrupt the Eurocentric perspective on art history, exploring how the socio-political force of a postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk could affect processes of transcultural identity construction. It reveals how Schlingensief translocated the Wagnerian concept to Burkina Faso to address German colonial history and engage with it from the perspective of multidirectional memory cultures.Sarah Hegenbart is lecturer in art history at Technical University of Munich and previously acted as a substitute for the professorship of art research with a focus on contemporary arts at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK Braunschweig). She is a member of Die Junge Akademie Mainz and member of the consortium of the Horizon 2020 research project 'Art and Research on Transformations of Individuals and Societies'. The author offers fresh theoretical perspectives on Schlingensief's work, as when they connect it to concepts such as narcissism or dialogical images. Also the author's great field research in Burkina Faso and the first-hand interviews conducted there distinguish the book from previous studies.Ilinca Todorut, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaThis is the first major study of the Opera village. The author has an excellent command not only of the scholarship on Schlingensief but also on Wagner, and all the current discussions on post-colonialism that continue to preoccupy the public sphere. It is an extremely timely contribution to a set of topical and also controversial discussions. Christopher Balme, LMU Munich