Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Carrying a Torch
The Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in the British and Chinese Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West. The author argues that the discourse...
Les professionnels et leurs formations
Entre développement des sujets et projets des institutions
Language: French
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Le titre de ce livre traduit l’intention des auteurs d’étudier la professionnalisation du point de vue double du développement des personnes et de l’organisation sociale de leurs activités. Il s’agit donc de s’intéresser à la fois à la manière dont un individu singulier devient professionnel...
De la connaissance à la compétence
Évaluer le potentiel d'action par un QCM « Recherche fondamentale inédite »
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Nous possédons des connaissances, nous obtenons des résultats scolaires, des diplômes … Mais cela nous permet-il pour autant d’agir dans les situations concrètes qui nous sont proposées dans toute leur diversité, du diagnostic médical à la dissertation, en passant par le problème mathématique...
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Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Suite au Précis du Plurilinguisme et du Pluriculturalisme (2008), et en continuité avec l'ouvrage Didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle : l'acteur en contexte mondialisé (2012), le débat didactique se poursuit et continue de déconstruire et de revisiter les catégories habituelles de l'enseignement...
Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings
Cultures and Discourses on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The essays assembled in this volume explore the meaning of the term "postcolonial" through various theoretical perspectives and disciplinary fields of expertise. They address issues ranging from culture, politics and history to literature and the arts, with particular emphasis on colonialist...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
As organisations seek legitimacy in a fast-moving, interconnected and changing world, how do public relations help them to manage their identity, responsibilities and impact on society? In a more interactive society, organisations need to align their actions with social demands and values. If the...
History of Vocational Education and Training in Europe
Cases, Concepts and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Understanding today’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems requires a comprehension of the rise and development, i.e. of the foundations of topical VET. This book provides a comparative view of its development in Europe. The contributions of renowned authors give insight into conceptual questions, cases and challenges in this field.
European and Asian Sustainable Towns
New Towns and Satellite Cities in their Metropolises
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
In the face of growing needs and problems around urbanization, the sustainable development of cities does not lie only in technology, research and innovation. Sustainable local development also results from a combination of different elements related to the development of social cohesion, the local...
The Challenges of Policy Transfer in Vocational Skills Development
National Qualifications Frameworks and the Dual Model of Vocational Training in International Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In the context of renewed global interest in the development of vocational skills, policy makers in many countries as well as representatives of technical organisations often hope to reform existing training systems by borrowing models and policies that seem to work elsewhere. One of these prominent...
Security, Democracy and Development
In the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Since the early 1990s, the southern Caucasus and its larger neighbourhood, the Black Sea region, have experienced deep and sometimes painful transformations, including bloody conflicts. They have also become an arena of geopolitical and geoeconomic competition between great powers. This has attracted...
Variability in assessor responses to undergraduate essays
An issue for assessment quality in higher education
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Academic standards in higher education depend on the judgements of individual academics assessing student work; it is in these micro-level practices that the validity and fairness of assessment is constituted. However, the quality of assessments of open-ended tasks like the coursework essay is difficult...
Eccentricity and Sameness
Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has been previously asserted. Focusing on texts published...
Intersections, Interferences, Interdisciplines
Literature with Other Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This volume advances the study of how the high arts and literature are reciprocally illuminating and interactive. Seventeen scholars from North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe demonstrate the dynamics of cross-referentiality and mixtures involving also newer and popular arts and media: photography,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This engaging collection of essays considers the cultural complexities of the Franco-Irish relationship in song and story, image and cuisine, novels, paintings and poetry. It casts a fresh eye on public perceptions of the historic bonds between Ireland and France, revealing a rich variety of contact...