Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
The Idea of the University
A Reader, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810....
Assault on Kids and Teachers
Countering Privatization, Deficit Ideologies and Standardization in U.S. Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the “public” out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education. Contributors,...
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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: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In this work, leading contemporary philosophers discuss key facets of the human person from a variety of perspectives in Christian thought. This closely woven volume includes chapters by Nicholas Wolterstorff on the distinction between humans and other animals; Robert Sokolowski on language; Marilyn...
by Anais Holgado Lage
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
El Diccionario de Marcadores Discursivos para estudiantes de español como segunda lengua registra alrededor de 700 expresiones de diversos tipos: organizadores del discurso, conjunciones, fórmulas rutinarias, etc. Estos marcadores están definidos, ejemplificados, explicados de forma simple y clasificados...
Measuring Change
Transformational Outcomes in Christian Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Measuring Change provides voluminous data substantiating the claim that students can and do experience personal formation in the context of Christian higher education. This volume is a one-of-a-kind, mixed-methods analysis of Canby Bible College (CBC) alumnae. By means of a three-part research instrumentation,...
by Dennis Laumann
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Memories of the German presence in the central Volta Region of Ghana are deep and vivid. This ethnically diverse area was part of the German Togoland colony from roughly 1884 to 1914 but German-speaking missionaries established stations earlier in the mid-nineteenth century. Ghanaian oral historians...
Generational Curses in the Pentateuch
An American and Maasai Intercultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Although the demographics of World Christianity demonstrate a population shift to the Global South, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, the preponderance of biblical scholarship continues to be dominated by Western scholars in pursuit of their contextual questions that are influenced by an Enlightenment-oriented...