Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy...
Culture and Technology
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology’s place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable...
by Molly Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
What makes for peace as lived? What images of peace issue from examination of daily experience? What can be gleaned from reflection upon the topic for the meanings and makings of peace in our world? Considering that to work for peace, we must begin with ourselves and with our children, Molly Quinn...
Crafting Critical Stories
Toward Pedagogies and Methodologies of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Critical Stories asks how social justice scholars and educators narrate, craft, and explore critical stories as a tool for culturally relevant, critical pedagogy....
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power
White Facultys Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty’s Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms is a collection of narratives that will transform the teaching of any faculty member who teaches in the STEM system. The book links issues of inclusion to teacher excellence at...
de-testing and de-grading schools
Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealing the...
Place, Being, Resonance
A Critical Ecohermeneutic Approach to Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
How do we begin to move beyond a use-relation with «natural resources» towards resonance with a deeply interrelated ecology? Place, Being, Resonance brings insights from the hermeneutic tradition, ecopoetics and indigenous epistemologies of place to bear on education in a world of ecological emergency....
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education
Critical Questions, New Imaginaries and Social Activism: A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early education and child care in many nations. The authors selected are leading contributors in discussions about critical early childhood studies over the past twenty...
Curriculum
Decanonizing the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a fresh and innovative collection that is concerned with the totalitarian Western Eurocentric cult that has dominated the field of curriculum studies. Contributors to this volume challenge dominant and counter-dominant curriculum positions of the Western Eurocentric...
Learning through Digital Game Design and Building in a Participatory Culture
An Enactivist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book discusses topics concerning digital game-based learning focusing on learning-by-game-building and Web 2.0. Grounded in the new theoretical perspective of enactivism, this book shows how such an approach can help students gain deep understanding of subjects such as mathematics and history,...
Auto/biography & Pedagogy
Memory & Presence in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from...
by Barbara Thayer-Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Relational Ontologies uses the metaphor of a fishing net to represent the epistemological and ontological beliefs that we weave together for our children, to give meaning to their experiences and to help sustain them in their lives. The book describes the epistemological threads we use to help determine...
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...