Mensen leren. Waarom? Waartoe? Hoe?
Vandaag kreeg ik het nieuwe nummer van Radix in handen, het tijdschrift over wetenschap en religie dat door Forum C wordt uitgegeven. Ik schreef er een artikel in waarin ik kort schets wat wetenschappelijke studie van religie vanuit evolutionair perspectief zoal inhoudt en hoe we daar in theologie mee kunnen omgaan. Hieronder kan je het…
My research in education is interdisciplinary. I want to bring together perspectives from pedagogy, theology, and evolutionary studies of culture in order to understand what it might mean for humans to educate and to be educated, to teach and to learn. This implies that I need to establish some kind of relation between different perspectives,…
Last week, I received an e-mail with the delightful news that my abstract for the next IRAS-conference , titled: “How Can We Know? Co-creating Knowledge in Perilous Times”, has been accepted. Moreover, the organizing committee awarded me with a Fellowship to enable me to join them. Obviously, I’m thrilled about this: a perfect way to end my…
This morning I made a note on a quote by Philip Hefner, from his “The Human Factor” (p. 86): “Jesus caressed and pressed things until they began to resist, and at that point, his experience moved him to utter “Abba, Father” — the significance being not that “Father” is masculine, but that “Father” is personal….
Tom Uytterhoeven One of the benefits of working at my faculty is that my office is located in – yes, as in physically part of – one of the largest theological libraries in the world. Reading has become a true adventure, leading to ever more new findings (sometimes it is not so much the…
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Imago Tour Sicily is a photographic project that seeks to use images to portray the unseen face of Sicily, which recoils from the stereotyped image on postcards and of tourism. We interviewed the project’s founder, Graziella Russo. Tom Uytterhoeven’s insight: What I like about this project is that it…