Peter Lang: 4879 books
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...
Higher Education Modelling
Development, Application and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book deals with the feasibility analysis of market-oriented Higher Education Institutions based on the data of international field survey. The topics under examinations require the use of qualitative methods: guideline-oriented open expert interviews in different countries for data collection,...
Higher Education Learning Outcomes Assessment
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book provides higher education teachers, leaders and policymakers with insights from research on assessing students’ learning outcomes. The book is founded in research, shaped by policy, and designed to be of enduring relevance to practice. Framed by a cycle of continuous quality improvement,...
Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education
Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education is a cutting-edge investigation of the alarming state of education today. This practical how-to handbook gives readers tactics and strategies to organize and challenge forces that threaten liberatory critical education. Drawn from scholars and...
Assault on Kids and Teachers
Countering Privatization, Deficit Ideologies and Standardization in U.S. Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the “public” out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education. Contributors,...
Pilgrim to Unholy Places
Christians and Jews re-visit the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995–2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Third Reich, 1933–45. These find expression in Diary entries that describe the sites as they now are and scope the problems they raise for both Jews and...
Heidegger and the Problem of Evil
Translated into English by Patrick Trompiz and Agata Bielik-Robson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This book provides an encompassing and thorough study of Martin Heidegger’s thought. It is not only a presentation but also a profound critique of the thinker’s beliefs. In the context of Heidegger’s cooperation with Nazism, the author reflects on the reasons behind his inability to confront the problem of evil and vulnerability to the threats of totalitarianism.
Survival of Utopias Weiterlebende Utopien
Life Reform and Progressive Education in Austria and Hungary Lebensreform und Reformpaedagogik in Oesterreich und Ungarn
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Life reform and progressive education developed various utopias and projected new ways of cultural, social, religious and political living. This book studies how these utopias lived on until World War II, how they still affect present life in Austria and Hungary, and it examines continuities and differences...
Heimat, Loss and Identity
Flight and Expulsion in German Literature from the 1950s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
What became of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe during the Second World War? In recent years, their suffering, flight and expulsion during and after the war has attracted increasing critical attention. A wave of literary fiction has accompanied this trend, contributing to, and sometimes triggering,...
Professionalisation of Adult Educators
International and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
In many regions of the world, professionalisation in adult and continuing education is brought into the focus of educational policy and research. Various fields of practice are looking for scientifical and political support in raising the level of professionalism. While there are no simple lessons...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Methods for studying writing processes have significantly developed over the last two decades. The rapid development of software tools which support the collection together with the display and analysis of writing process data and new input from various neighboring disciplines contribute to an increasingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an established approach to support multilingualism in Europe by teaching various school subjects in an additional language. The practices used, however, vary considerably. Our book considers this diversity by looking at CLIL scenarios, defined as...
Data-Driven Problem-Solving in International Business Communication
Examining the Use of Bilingual Web-Based Tools for Text Production with Advanced English as a Foreign Language Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This study challenges the traditional approach of focusing on English as a foreign language learning in international business settings. The primary objective in such settings is to successfully create a linguistically correct document. Rather than relying on accumulated incomplete individual language...