Peter Lang: 4879 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Academic literacy used to be considered a complex set of skills that develop automatically as a by-product of academic socialization. Since the Bologna Reform with its shorter degree programmes, however, it has been realized that these skills need to be fostered actively. Simultaneously, writing skills...
Videography
Introduction to Interpretive Videoanalysis of Social Situations
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book provides an overview of the current state of video analysis, including the most recent developments in this rapidly growing field. It covers various methodological approaches. The authors address practical and technical questions and potential problems arising during the research process....
Communication Audit in Globally Integrated R«U38»D Project Teams
A Linguistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Communication audit is a relatively new field of research, which has so far been investigated from a managerial point of view. Linguists have not yet researched it. This book summarises existing, mainly managerial, approaches to communication audits and brings to the forefront a linguistic perspective...
Cultures of Program Planning in Adult Education
Concepts, Research Results and Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book is a unique approach in relating mutually international and comparative research from scholars on program planning for adults. Program planning is about needs, finding topics, making offers and bundling different contents. It makes organizations of adult education visible and contributes...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The volume contains a selection of articles on current theoretical issues in audiovisual translation, translator training and domain-specific issues. The authors are experts in their fields from renowned universities in the world. The book will be an indispensable aid for trainers and researchers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The first seven articles of the book provide an overview of how Estonian educational scientists, collaborating with colleagues from Finland and Sweden on one of the articles, have empirically studied the quality of learning environment, teachers’ professionalism and their perceptions of their own...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Inclusive education continues to grow in popularity and acceptance in the United States. However, most teachers – general and special educators – are poorly prepared to be successful in inclusive classrooms and schools. Undoubtedly, the challenge to professionals involves the acquisition of new...
The Discourse of Disability in Communication Education
Narrative-Based Research for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This book examines the ways in which communicative practices influence the lives of students and faculty with disabilities in higher education. Offering their own experiences as teachers and students, the authors use qualitative research methods, mainly narrative and autoethnography, to highlight...
Enacting Change from Within
Disability Studies Meets Teaching and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Disability Studies in Education (DSE) provides a useful and compelling framework for re-envisioning the possibility of education for all students. However, the philosophies of Disability Studies (DS) can be seen as contradictory to many mainstream values and practices in K-12 education. In an ever-shifting...
Black Culture and Experience
Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues offers a holistic look at Black culture in the twenty-first century. It is a collection of work that creates a synergy among authors and leads to a valuable resource on contemporary issues. Part One examines institutional, societal, and political issues...
The Social Foundations Reader
Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a...
Boyhood to Manhood
Deconstructing Black Masculinity through a Life Span Continuum
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Boyhood to Manhood: Deconstructing Black Masculinity through a Life Span Continuum seeks to foster an open and honest discussion about the intersection of multiple identities found among Black males. The book explores topics such as what it means to be a Black male; race and ethnicity; health; [dis]ability;...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Never before have leadership, equity, and social justice been more important and/or critical to the mission of public universities and institutions of higher education. The twenty-first century has ushered in a period of instantaneous feedback, including live newsfeeds, reviews of goods and services,...
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Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Der Sammelband thematisiert die Schulreform in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone im Jahr 1946. Ziele, Inhalte und gesetzliche Grundlegung dieser Reform werden unter historischen, juristischen, schulgeschichtlichen und pädagogischen Aspekten analysiert. Geprägt wurde die Reform von der vielfältigen...