Language Studies category: 15171 books
Advancing Social Studies Education through Self-Study Methodology
The Power, Promise, and Use of Self-Study in Social Studies Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Advancing Social Studies Education through Self-Study Methodology provides a collection of works that highlights ways in which self-study of teaching and teacher education practices can advance conversations and knowledge in social studies education. Some of the pieces chosen for this book will provide...
Social Studies Teacher Education
Critical Issues and Current Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Over the past decade, the world has experienced a major economic collapse, the increasing racial inequity and highprofile police killings of unarmed Black and Brown people, the persistence of global terrorism, a largescale refugee crisis, and the negative impacts of global warming. In reaction to...
Rethinking Social Studies and History Education
Social Education through Alternative Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and history education through a social education lens. Social...
Raza Studies
The Public Option for Educational Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution offers the first comprehensive account...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation...
by Stephen Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. A unique work, it encompasses an overview of the grammar of Polar Eskimo – a language spoken by about 770 people – as well...
Language Conflict in Algeria
From Colonialism to Post-Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This is a book about the use of languages as a proxy for conflict. It traces the history of Algeria from colonization by the French in 1830 to the celebration of 50 years of independence in 2012, and examines the linguistic issues that have accompanied this turbulent period. The book begins with an...
Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies
2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019
In this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished and emergent scholars in the social sciences and humanities to review the major theoretical traditions, trends and trajectories in the hugely popular field of identity...
by J. P. Mallory, D. Q. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
This book introduces Proto-Indo-European and explores what the language reveals about the people who spoke it. The Proto-Indo-Europeans lived somewhere in Europe or Asia between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago, and no text of their language survives. J. P. Mallory and Douglas Adams show how over the last...
The Souls of Yoruba Folk
Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African...
Understanding Case Study Research
Small-scale Research with Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly guide to the nature and use of case study research.
Whether as part of a more substantial study or as the foundation for a self-contained smaller project, case studies provide viable and valuable...
by Hans Ostrom, William Haltom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Orwell’s "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy visits the essay as if for the first time, clearing away lore about the essay and responding to the prose itself. It shows how many of Orwell’s rules and admonitions are far less useful than they are famed to be,...
by Claude Rilly, Alex de Voogt
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system, which was used between circa 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe, located in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic, a language that until recently was considered...
Just Words
Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts...