Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Working Together
A Case Study of a National Arts Education Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Partnerships among a variety of institutions – for profit, not-for-profit, and non-profit – are a relatively recent organizational development. Such partnerships link businesses, government, and social agencies. The primary reason for these relationships is to achieve goals sooner and more efficiently...
Strategic Planning for Public Relations
Beginning the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Strategic Planning for Public Relations: Beginning the Journey is written for the next generation of public relations professionals. It takes account of the changing needs of the PR industry, where strategic thinking is needed in abundance but tends to be in short supply among many people who are...
The Trayvon Martin in US
An American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The events surrounding the Trayvon Martin murder, trial and acquittal bring to public and private discourse the violent, brutal murders of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Dr. King, while bringing back to memory the racially provoked murders of Black American and Black immigrant men such...
Sanctuaries in Washington Irving's «The Sketch Book»
The Sketch Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the book presents a short history of sanctuaries in nineteenth-century American and European literature.
by Oscar Koopman
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa is a contemporary contribution that entices science teachers to ‘re-examine’ or ‘rethink’ the pedagogical strategies they use in their teaching. It offers fresh and exciting teaching approaches that explore new ways to tackle the worrisome problems...
The Dynamic Student Development Meta-Theory
A New Model for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The Dynamic Student Development Metatheodel(DSDM) is a meta-theory based on empirically based inferences drawn from a national survey entitled the University Learning Outcomes Assessment (UniLOA). The UniLOA’s current dataset consists of over 500,000 college student participants and has supported...
Power Play
Explorando y empujando fronteras en una escuela en Tejas through a multilingual play-based early learning curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Power Play tells the story of activist teachers and the very young together in a play-based curriculum in a public school in Texas. The authors narrate (with playful interruptions) a curriculum that is powered by the students’ lived encounters—the languages, landscapes, beliefs, histories, geographies,...
Justice in Search of Leaders
A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Justice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership is a guide for educators who are committed to equity-driven teaching, leading, and policy-making, and would like to operationalize socially just school practices for all children. Moving beyond a heroes and holidays approach...
Japanese Animal-Wife Tales
Narrating Gender Reality in Japanese Folktale Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
A familiar, beloved, and yet misunderstood character in the Japanese folktale tradition is the animal-woman, an earthly animal that assumes the form of a female human. In order to articulate the characteristics that make Japanese Animal-Wife tales unique, this trailblazing book Japanese Animal-Wife...
Harmonious Disagreement
Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting himself as a defender of Confucian...
The Power and Value of Music
Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What are the factors responsible...
by Bernadette Marie Calafell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In a society that increasingly touts post-racial and post-feminist discourses, the trope of monstrosity becomes a way to critically examine contemporary meanings around race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Focusing on ways in which historically marginalized groups appropriate monstrosity as...
Mircea Eliade
From Magic to Myth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade’s ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature with his arrival in the West....
Talking Back to Globalization
Texts and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Globalization is one of the most widely circulated, high-stakes buzzwords of the past generation; yet discussion of the topic is often encased in paradox and contention over what globalization is, to whom and where it may (or may not) apply, and to what effect. In Talking Back to Globalization: Texts...