Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
by Richard Kent
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6–12, Revised Edition is a how-to and, ultimately, a why-to book for middle school and high school educators as well as for English/language arts teacher candidates and their methods instructors. This revised and updated International Writing...
The Embedding Apparatus
Media Surveillance during the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
When the war in Iraq began in 2003, the issue of the special status accorded to journalists covering the military operations arose quite naturally. Promising innovation, the Pentagon’s announcement that they would integrate hundreds of journalists into combat units—what has been known as embedding—attracted...
by Lukasz Czarnecki
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A pesar de las diferencias históricas, económicas, sociales, jurídicas y geopolíticas entre México y Polonia, las transformaciones tanto económica como democrática dieron origen a concepciones oficiales de la pobreza que coinciden en ser distintas respecto a las que desarrollaron los fundadores...
Corporate Communication
Critical Business Asset for Strategic Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The communication role in organizations has changed, just as the nature of organizations has changed in response to the explosion of new communication technologies as well as global networks within organizations. Communication is more complex, strategic, and vital to the health of the organization...
Transforming Education with New Media
Participatory Pedagogy, Interactive Learning, and Web 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The possibilities that online platforms and new media technologies provide, in terms of human connection and the dissemination of information, are seemingly endless. With Web 2.0 there is an exchange of messages, visions, facts, fictions, contemplations, and declarations buzzing around a network of...
On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice
Noam Chomskys Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically...
Monster
Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Discussing how changes in electronic communication and artificial notions of landscape have impacted form...
Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio
Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is...
Becoming Educated
Young Peoples Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and...
Masamunes Blade
A Proposition for Dialectic Affect Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Affect is so powerful and represents such ripe territory for study that, in its infancy, conventions of research need to be established that attend to its particular motion and shape. Masamune’s Blade: A Proposition for Dialectic Affect Research outlines an original research method for the study...
Doing Critical Educational Research
A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from...
Modern German Plays
An Advanced German Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Modern German Plays: An Advanced German Textbook utilizes some of the most famous modern plays written in German as vehicles to teach German language, literature, and culture. The featured works are The Three-Penny Opera, The Devil’s General, Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Chinese Wall, Visit, A Sports...
Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup
Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup identifies elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States. The book discusses subjects and themes that reflect the richness and diversity of this culture. Included are analyses of the Portuguese fondness for nicknames over surnames, pejorative...
Living on the Edge
Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education—the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living...