Peter Lang: 4879 books
The Reimagining Ireland Reader
Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
To mark the fact that the Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print, this book brings together a selection of essays from the first fifty volumes, carefully chosen to give a flavour of the diversity and multidisciplinary nature of the series. Following a chronological...
Foodscapes of Chinese America
The Transformation of Chinese Culinary Culture in the U.S. since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book explores the transformation of Chinese food in the U.S. after 1965 from a cultural perspective. The author asks how Chinese food reflects the racial relation between the Chinese community and the mainstream white society and investigates the symbolic meanings as well as the cultural functions...
by Magdalena M. Wrobel Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in different countries contributed...
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Homeland and Civil Security
A Research-Based Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This uniquely composed textbook provides a cross-disciplinary introduction to the field of homeland and civil security. It unites U.S. and international scholars and practitioners in addressing both foundational topics and risk- informed priorities in fostering secure societies. The book examines...
Journeys of Social Justice
Women of Color Presidents in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
This edited volume documents the unique experiences of women of color in higher education administration. From full professors, senior administrators, deans, presidents, and chancellors, women of color share their social justice journeys to leadership roles in the academy. With a focus on women of...
The Digital University
A Dialogue and Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The Digital University: A Dialogue and Manifesto focuses on teaching, learning, and research in the age of the digital reason and their relationships to the so-called knowledge economy. The first part of the book, ‘The University in the Epoch of Digital Reason,’ presents the authors’ insights...
Visions in Global Education
The Globalization of Curriculum and Pedagogy in Teacher Education and Schools: Perspectives from Canada, Russia, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book is a compilation of new scholarship in the field of global education. Previously unaddressed or barely touched upon topics include: the historical evolution of the global education movement; the development of a foundation for the formation of a philosophy of global education; an analysis...
Outliving Your Dissertation
A Guide for Students and Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This guide focuses on the dissertation work as a step-by-step process and details the structure and the content of dissertation chapters. Unique to this edition is its conception of the dissertation in optimistic, realistic, and symbolic terms, which altogether provide theoretical basis and practical...
Breakbeat Pedagogy
Hip Hop and Spoken Word Beyond the Classroom Walls
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools. Looking beyond the previous model of hip-hop-based education, Brian Mooney argues for school-wide hip-hop events, such as poetry slams, as the ideal site for students to engage in the elements of...
Coloring in the White Spaces
Reclaiming Cultural Identity in Whitestream Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book examines the struggle against racial and cultural inequity in educational systems, presenting the case study of a New Zealand school and its community’s determination to resist alienating environments. If we look at an untouched child’s coloring book, for instance, we think of the pages...
by Ludovic Highman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The book sets out to offer a national perspective on the complex changes occurring in European higher education systems. The Lisbon European Council (2000) set an ambitious target for the Union to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" with important...
by Mojca Kompara, Tomasz Stepien
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive...
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...
The Idea of the University
A Reader, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810....