Peter Lang: 4879 books
Teacher Leadership
The «New» Foundations of Teacher Education A Reader Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers’ work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and national standards, and as such, it is included in most contemporary teacher education programs. Three decades of research have focused on teacher leadership...
Community College Leadership and Administration
Theory, Practice, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This book, a training tool for the 21st-century community college leader and administrator, deconstructs outdated practices and constructs new approaches to how contemporary community college leadership is viewed, practiced, and envisioned. Both timely and comprehensive, the book develops new models...
Teams and Their Leaders
A Communication Network Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book provides the first truly comprehensive treatment of three topics that have traditionally been treated separately: teamwork, leadership, and communication. Teamwork has become central to the operation of the modern organization. People from diverse backgrounds culturally, professionally,...
Effective or Wise?
Teaching and the Meaning of Professional Dispositions in Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In our work as educators, we all aspire to be effective. We also aspire to be wise. If teachers are to represent and advocate for education, we must become the stewards of a discourse that nurtures education’s possibilities. This book explores how teacher dispositions are defined, developed, cultivated,...
Portraits of Anti-racist Alternative Routes to Teaching in the U.S.
Framing Teacher Development for Community, Justice, and Visionaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Portraits of Anti-racist Alternative Routes to Teaching in the U.S.: Framing Teacher Development for Community, Justice, and Visionaries portrays how a critical teacher development framework for Teachers of Color can be applied to alternative routes to teaching and professional development program...
Translation, Globalization and Younger Audiences
The Situation in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Translating for younger audiences is in need of critical investigation, as children’s and teenagers’ literature and media products are being increasingly globalized and glocalized, with translation playing an important role in the process. Media phenomena such as Harry Potter and animated Disney...
Communicative Cities in the 21st Century
The Urban Communication Reader III
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This book explores the concept of the «communicative city», developed initially by participants in an international Urban Communication Foundation initiative, by bringing together scholars from across the communication arts and sciences seeking to enhance our understanding of the dynamic relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Life science comprises any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms and their relationships to one another and the environment. By presenting the proceedings of three transdisciplinary transatlantic workshops, this book deals with the interface...
Voyage across a Constellation of Information
Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
What do orcs, elves, and information literacy have to do with each others? Find out in Voyage across a Constellation of Information as we take an in-depth look at information literacy practices (how people find, evaluate, and use information) in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft...
Produsing Theory in a Digital World 2.0
The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories – some still emerging – can intersect and shine a light into the spaces between what previously had been neatly separated and discrete components of media systems. In some...
The Culture of Mean
Representing Bullies and Victims in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The Culture of Mean is the first book-length feminist critical exploration of representations of youth bullying in media. Bringing into conversation scholarship on feminism, media, new communication technologies, surveillance, gender, race, sexuality, and class, Emily D. Ryalls critically examines...
The Mutual Assistance and Solidarity Clauses
Legal and Political Challenges of an Integrated EU Security System
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The Mutual Assistance and Solidarity Clauses is the first comprehensive comparative analysis of two major innovations introduced by the Lisbon Treaty. Antonio-Maria Martino’s study focuses on the origins, scope, interpretation and technical aspects of both clauses, with a particular focus on the...
Integrated Reporting
Useful for investors?
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The introduction of Integrated Reporting (IR) is supposed to tackle shortcomings of corporate reporting that have been criticized for decades. The new reporting format intends to improve the understandability of corporate reports and broaden their often merely financial and backward-looking perspective....
Shopper Behavior at the Point of Purchase
Drivers of In-Store Decision-Making and Determinants of Post-Decision Satisfaction in a High-Involvement Product Choice
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book explores two central aspects of shopper behavior at the POP: decision-making itself and how it is affected by in-store and out-of-store factors, with a focus on the role of in-store attention, post-decision choice satisfaction and its determinants. It empirically researches these aspects...