Peter Lang: 4879 books
Real World Career Preparation
A Guide to Creating a University Student-Run Communications Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
University student-run communications agencies allow students to work with real clients and get real world experience before they graduate from college and enter the workforce. Student-run agencies are increasing in popularity, but building a successful agency is challenging.
With more than...
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...
Estudios sobre el léxico
Puntos y contrapuntos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Catorce investigadores de diferentes países y nacionalidades, especialistas en diferentes campos de estudio sobre la lengua española – Didáctica del ELE y del EFE, lengua de especialidad, lexicología, lingüística aplicada, terminología, traducción –, resaltan, al enfocar el léxico dentro...
Dignity and Human Rights Education
Exploring Ultimate Worth in a Post-Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book addresses the question of human rights education in a world that is witnessing a resurgence of religion in public life, and a continuation of religion across much of the globe, long after secularization theories predicted its decline. Promoting a universal vision of human rights while acknowledging...
Border Crossing «Brothas»
Black Males Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Book Award
Winner of the 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award
Border Crossing «Brothas» examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross...
The World Leaders in Education
Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods explores the practices and policies that the highest-ranking nations in education implement to achieve their success. Topics include the education of disadvantaged students; cultural attitudes toward education;...
by Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance aims to address the contentious practice of assessment in schools and universities within a poststructuralist educational paradigm. Within the theoretical paradigm of Foucault’s (1994) notions of governmentality, subjectification and dissonance,...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Se trata de un libro para y sobre el profesor de español. Por un lado, reflexiona sobre la labor del profesor desde una perspectiva plenamente actual. Se revisa cuáles han de ser sus competencias y actitudes a través de estudios que abordan aspectos recientes y novedosos sobre la labor didáctica...
The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism
Portraits of Four Teachers for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Through the artful science of portraiture, The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism presents the stories of four teacher activists—how they are and have become social change agents—to uncover important pedagogical underpinnings of teacher activism. Embedded in their stories are moments of political clarity...
by Hashim H. Noor, Nassir S. Al-Qadi
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
A Course in Applied Linguistics for Arab EFL/ESL Students has been developed keeping in view the academic needs of native-Arabic speakers learning English as a second/foreign language. The book in the process of understanding how students acquire second language, sheds some light on how children acquire...
Teaching Business Culture in the Italian Context
Global and Intercultural Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Italy often suffers from its cultural heritage. Certain themes have passed into stereotype and popular consumption, while others have been overlooked. This volume discusses teaching choices and topics on the implementation of a US study abroad business programme in Italy. The authors first have a...
Law and Popular Culture
A Course Book (2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Popular culture constructs our perceptions of law and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Now in its second edition, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book explores the interface between two subjects of enormous importance to everyone...
Linguistic Change in Galway City English
A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (th) and (dh) in Urban Western Irish English
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this study approaches the major sociolinguistic characteristics...