Peter Lang: 4879 books
Immigrant Workers and Meanings of Work
Communicating Life and Career Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This first-of-its-kind book uniquely captures the meanings of work expressed by immigrants. Their stories – from work histories to life transitions and professional journeys – are conscientiously and rigorously mapped by the academic insights of communication scholars, many of whom are immigrants...
Constructing Critical Consciousness
Narratives that Unmask Hegemony and Ideas for Creating Greater Equity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness Reader aims to help us rethink "race," racism, and whiteness as narratives with deep roots in the past that contribute to the current social order, and function to reproduce the social hierarchy in which we live. The reader includes several...
Exploring Globalization Opportunities and Challenges in Social Studies
Effective Instructional Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
This book on global issues, trends, and practices is intended to serve primarily as an instructional and learning resource in social studies methods courses for preservice teachers. In addition, it is an effective social studies and global education resource for college faculty, graduate students,...
Working for Social Justice Inside and Outside the Classroom
A Community of Students, Teachers, Researchers, and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
What were once distinct professions for serving others and building knowledge are now communities of workers struggling against a tide of increasingly unregulated capitalism that is being fed by human greed. Teachers have become education workers, joining a working class that is rapidly falling behind...
Utopian Discourses Across Cultures
Scenarios in Effective Communication to Citizens and Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this polysemous notion and its fascination for scholars across the centuries, who have developed a variety of...
Innovation, Complexity and Policy
Contributions from 30 years of innovation policy research in Austria
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This book brings together a set of contributions that show the breadth and depth of the scientific work of Josef Fröhlich and his influence on Austrian research, technology and innovation (RTI) policy. It is edited in honour of the occasion of his retirement as Head of Innovation Systems Department...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for the purpose of taking up PhD studies. They hail from different countries and academic backgrounds and...
Poor, but Sexy
Reflections on Berlin Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Poor, But Sexy: Reflections on Berlin Scenes offers readers a varied cross-section of the city’s scenes, providing a prismatic view of one of Europe’s mythical cultural capitals. The authors gathered here address a range of topics, including Turkish gay clubs, queer filmmaking, record labels,...
Governing Europe
How to Make the EU More Efficient and Democratic
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book is a collection of the contributions to the Governing Europe project, which tackles the current situation and the future developments of the European mechanism of governance, putting forward a series of policy and institutional recommendations for the medium and long term, aimed at improving the democratic nature and the effectiveness of the European decision-making processes.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume...
Informality in Eastern Europe
Structures, Political Cultures and Social Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This volume deals with different aspects of informal structures and practices in Eastern Europe. Its objectives are twofold. It aims at discovering whether or to what extent informal structures and practices in Eastern Europe have meanings, functions, forms and effects different from those that can...
Civil Society on the Move
Transition and Transfer in Germany and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Following the transformation of the Soviet-controlled Eastern European system, there has been a renewal of discourses on civil society. The collection of essays discusses this complicated and controversial concept and explores the possibility of new approaches for the study of Korean civil society...
The Silent Majority in Communist and Post-Communist States
Opinion Polling in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This book takes stock of opinion polls in communist and post-communist states, presents specific case studies and answers the question how opinion polls under conditions of censorship and lack of media pluralism differ from those in liberal democratic societies. These polls were mostly used by the...
The Creative City
Cultural policies and urban regeneration between conservation and development
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book focuses on the relationships between the creative city principles and the planning approach introduced by the European Landscape Convention in order to identify best practices for the development of innovative cultural policies and new urban regeneration tools.
The research is characterized...