Peter Lang: 4879 books
Inclusion in Context
Policy, Practice and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Recent years have seen a rapid policy transformation from segregation to inclusion in the education of children with special educational needs in Ireland. This book investigates how resource teachers and class teachers interpret the policy and principles of inclusion and enact these in their practice....
Researching New Literacies
Design, Theory, and Data in Sociocultural Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how to do good research is by closely...
The Curriculum
Whose Internationalization?
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The Curriculum: Whose Internationalization? asks a series of important questions in the re-examination of the internationalization of curriculum studies. It reflects the work of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Task Force – created at the American Association for the Advancement of...
Dominicanidad / Dominicanity
Perspectivas de un concepto (trans-)nacional / Perspectives on a (trans-)national concept
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Con unos 20 artículos de investigadores/-as de Europa, de los Estados Unidos y de la República Dominicana, la presente obra interdisciplinaria e internacional ofrece un panorama actual de la investigación sobre la dominicanidad como concepto (trans-)nacional en sus contextos mundiales, insulares...
Citizens participation at the local level in Europe and Neighbouring Countries
Contribution of the Association of Local Democracy Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
ALDA – The Association of Local Democracy Agencies – is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of good governance and citizen participation at the local level. It is made up of over 160 members comprising local authorities and civil society organisations in the enlarged Europe.
Recently, new...
The Future of the Library
From Electric Media to Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Originally written in the late 1970s, this book was untouched for more than 35 years. McLuhan passed away before it went to press, but Logan always intended to finish it. Even though much has changed in the three decades since work on the project was halted, many of the points that McLuhan and Logan...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The essays in this book are focused on the production and the use of textbooks in different countries and different periods of European history. By indicating some particularly important moments in the evolution of textbooks, they allow a better understanding of the educational history and of some...
Forme(s) et modes dêtre / Form(s) and Modes of Being
Lontologie de Roman Ingarden / The Ontology of Roman Ingarden
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Le présent ouvrage est un recueil d’articles de chercheurs internationaux sur l’apport à l’ontologie du phénoménologue polonais Roman Ingarden. Il contient des contributions sur des thèmes aussi divers que la dépendance existentielle, les catégories ontologiques, les modes d’être,...
History of Philosophy II
Plato and Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The coursebook presents Plato and Aristotle as the two most significant and groundbreaking thinkers of European thought from the era of classical Greek philosophy. The author provides prefatory orientation in the labyrinth of their complex thought and sketches their metaphysics, problems of knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema builds and expands on existing work in the field, providing a coherent analysis of films which, despite their international importance, have so far received limited critical attention. The volume maps key trends in Greek cinema since the...
Educating for Sexual Virtue
A Moral Vision for Relationships and Sex Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is an issue surrounded by controversy and debate, with important implications for the interconnected roles of the state, the school and the home and for the way we understand ourselves, our sexual identity and our personal relationships.
This book charts...
El discurso de instituciones, empresas y viajeros
Del texto al turismo y del turismo al texto
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 2, 2014
El objetivo de esta colección de trabajos es analizar algunas de las complejas relaciones que se establecen entre los textos y la actividad turística, siendo la principal la inducción mutua a la acción, de viajar y de dar testimonio. Se presentan en función de los emisores, pertenecientes a tres...
History of Philosophy I
From Heraclitus to the Sophists
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This coursebook addresses key presocratics from Heraclitus to the sophists, who stand at the origin of philosophy as cornerstone of European spirituality. Readers might find that already at this point we encounter timeless and actual questions concerning the human condition in the world, limits of...
Toward Metaphysics
New Tendencies in French Philosophy in the Middle of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book presents and analyzes specific metaphysical tendencies that were revived within particular branches of French philosophy from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using the examples of the five philosophers active in this period (Louis Lavelle, Ferdinand Alquié, Jean Wahl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and...