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The Strange Past. How do you teach your students to contextualize?: Course
Contextualization is a difficult skill for many students, because they often look at the world from their own values, norms and knowledge. However, to successfully explain historical and current events, it is necessary that students learn …
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At the table! Eating with Muslims, Jews and Christians: Expo
For many people, religion largely determines what you can or cannot eat and how something should be prepared. But food or its abstinence also plays an important role in celebrations, traditions and rites of passage. In this exhibition, PARCUM …
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The Science Lab: Where sciences and archeology shake hands
Archeology and science go hand in hand: this is what students discover from the fourth year onwards in The Science Lab. They take on the role of researcher and curator by conducting scientific research on real archaeological objects from our …
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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Something new under the sun? Man and climate throughout history: Course
The climate crisis is increasingly dominating our lives. The summer of 2022 brought unprecedented monsoons in Pakistan and dry rivers in large parts of Europe. A year earlier, the Meuse Valley was flooded and climate deaths also occurred in the …
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Parallel Histories, challenge your students to work interactively with controversial topics: Course
Don't be afraid of competing stories: seek them out, put them side by side, challenge your students to immerse themselves in different perspectives and form their own judgments. Parallel Histories offers a new way to study the history of …
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Into the Tree
In the winter it is cold and the trees are bare, in the spring flowers and plants come out of the ground and leaves grow on the trees. In the summer they are in full splendor and in the fall they color beautifully and release their leaves. Trees …
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't Schoon Verdiep
In this new interactive workshop, students put themselves in the shoes of city council members and make decisions about what their ideal city looks like. This immersive game about democracy and citizenship will take place in the renovated city …
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History in the classroom: refresh your teaching knowledge: Course
History education is not standing still: new attainment targets, new concepts, new working methods… Central to this is the emphasis on historical thinking among students. This includes not only developing a historical frame of reference, …
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City game Philosophy of life Brussels
In the game BXL – Brussels eXtra ideologically speaking, two teams go on a journey of discovery through the center of Brussels. Along the way, they receive assignments that make them think about (their own) philosophy of life, religious …
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Heldenflix: Workshop
Why are Netflix series so addictive? The answer lies in the earliest adventure novels and how well they have been preserved or not. In an interactive workshop we teach young people from the fourth to sixth year of secondary education to make …
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Exploring the carillon of the University Library in Leuven
Did you know that the carillon is a Flemish invention (anno 1510!) and that Leuven belongs to the worldwide top with five carillons? Discover all about this enormous instrument with your class during a visit to the library tower. The carillon in …
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