Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Educators Queering Academia
Critical Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The memoirs in this collection represent a cross-section of critical reflections by a queerly diverse set of individuals on their experiences inhabiting a variety of spaces within the field of education. In their stories, the authors share how they queered and are continuing to queer the academy in...
Storying Learning in Early Childhood
When Children Lead Participatory Curriculum Design, Implementation, and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Storying Learning in Early Childhood documents philosophical, research, and critical questions about notions of childrens’ experiences and learning potential that heavily influence the profession. Critically created, child-centered curriculum and assessment collaborations focus on contexts of homes,...
You Can't Teach Us if You Don't Know Us and Care About Us
Becoming an Ubuntu, Responsive and Responsible Urban Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book addresses the needs of diverse urban students for a new kind of teacher, classroom learning context, curriculum, and pedagogy in order to effectively learn, perform, and achieve. Drawing on the African concept of Ubuntu as a fundamental framework for enacting a humanizing pedagogy, the text...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Higher education and society are becoming increasingly intertwined. Both act as a transmitter of culture, yet many colleges and universities also ideally seek to create a more perfectible society and more enlightened, engaged citizens. When the connections between social structures and post-secondary...
by Carolyn M. Shields
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Transformative Leadership: A Primer both delivers a complete and engaging overview of transformative leadership and also clearly distinguishes it from other popular approaches to leadership. Hence, this will be the text of choice for many graduate courses in educational leadership. Carolyn M. Shields...
Leading While Black
Reflections on the Racial Realities of Black School Leaders Through the Obama Era and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
What does it mean to lead while Black in America? How do Black educators lead for equity to ensure a quality academic experience for Black children when calls for equality are routinely discredited in our post-racial context? Through this book, Floyd Cobb passionately and honestly draws from his personal...
Living Beyond the Borders
Essays on Global Immigrants and Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Cross-border migration has resulted in many social, cultural, economic, and political challenges that need attention. Globalization, migration, and transnationalism have a strong impact on the lives of diasporic immigrants and refugees. Transnationalism and diaspora, which result from globalization...
Public Policy Argumentation and Debate
A Practical Guide for Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Through an exclusive focus on public policy advocacy as a practical endeavor, Philip Dalton and John R. Butler depart from approaches to debate education that focus on the rules of simulated, academic debate formats. Beginning with the assumption that readers have already developed a basic capacity...
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys
From «Vergueenza» to «Échale Ganas»
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys presents an ethnographic portrait of the experiences and counterstories of nine Latino teenage boys representing different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds attending a high school in North Carolina. Using critical race theory (CRT), Latino...
The School of Antioch
Biblical Theology and the Church in Syria
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The School of Antioch: Biblical Theology and the Church in Syria contains the latest conclusions and findings of academic research by specialized biblical scholars in biblical theology of the Church in the East commonly referred to as the School of Antioch. This collection of essays will be of special...
A Quiet Revolution
Some Social and Religious Perspectives on the Nigerian Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In A Quiet Revolution: Some Social and Religious Perspectives on the Nigerian Crisis, Joseph F. Mali argues that contrary to popular belief, corruption and failed leadership are not at the heart of the Nigerian crisis. Corruption and misrule, though they have done a terrible harm to the Nigerian society,...
The Quicksands of Belief
The Need for Skepticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. Instead, uncritically accepting the often absurd beliefs swirling around them,...
Intellectual Property Law and Interactive Media
Free for a Fee
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The digitizing of intellectual property and the ease and speed with which it can be copied, transmitted, and globally shared poses legal challenges for traditional owners of content rights, for those who create new media, and for those who consume new media content.
This informative and accessible...
Health Communication
Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book represents...