Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Beyond Borders
Queer Eros and Ethos (Ethics) in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Beyond Borders compiles essays from various authors who explore the queerness of young adult literature that contains lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning characters, some written by LGBTQ identified authors, while presenting lessons for secondary English classrooms. As queer theorists,...
Insights While Suffering
With a View to the Cross and Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
From the days of the early Church Christians have forged what has seemed to be a fitting kinship between their suffering and Christ’s Passion. As a result, Christians are sometimes guided by the impression that simply believing hard enough – «Have faith!» – would somehow trickle down to change...
Priests of My People
Levitical Paradigms for Early Christian Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This book offers an innovative examination of the question: why did early Christians begin calling their ministerial leaders «priests» (using the terms hiereus/sacerdos)? Scholarly consensus has typically suggested that a Christian «priesthood» emerged either from an imitation of pagan priesthood...
Reel Diversity
A Teachers Sourcebook Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The first edition of Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook won the 2009 Phillip C. Chinn Book Award of the National Association for Multicultural Education. This revised edition is an updated resource guide for educators in secondary and university classrooms who desire to integrate mainstream...
Learning to be in the World with Others
Difficult Knowledge and Social Studies Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this book, H. James Garrett inquires into the processes of learning about the social world, populated as it often is with bewildering instances of loss, violence, and upheaval. In such learning, interactions invite and enliven our passionate responses, or prompt us to avoid them. Interpreting and...
Disabling Characters
Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Disabling Characters provides detailed analyses of selected young adult (YA) novels and short stories. It looks at the relative agency of the disabled character, the behavior of the other characters, the environment in which the character must live, the assumptions that seem to be underlying certain...
by Natalie Muñoz
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Disabusing Women in the Old French Fabliaux provides a much-needed reevaluation of the role of women in the fabliaux. Spanning the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the fabliaux are short, ribald tales written in verse by mostly anonymous male authors. Their varied portrayals of female characters...
The Most Precious Possession
The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Finding a precious object – a gem, a ring or a coin – inside the belly of a fish is a favorite motif in western literatures that can be traced back to the Greek historian Herodotus. In Herodotus’ account of the rise and fall of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, the hero cast his beloved ring,...
O. K. Bouwsma
A Philosophers Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
O. K. Bouwsma was, with J. L. Austin and J. O. Wisdom, the best known of the «Ordinary Language» philosophers of the mid-twentieth century. In 1950, he initiated the prestigious John Locke Lectures at Oxford as a representative of that school of philosophers, who developed the implications of Wittgenstein’s...
Pedagogical Matters
New Materialisms and Curriculum Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This edited collection takes up the wild and sudden surge of new materialisms in the field of curriculum studies. New materialisms shift away from the strong focus on discourse associated with the linguistic or cultural turn in theory and toward recent work in the physical and biological sciences;...
Marx, Capital, and Education
Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
With the contradictions of capitalism heightening and intensifying, and with new social movements spreading across the globe, revolutionary transformation is once again on the agenda. For radicals, the most pressing question is: How can we transform ourselves and our world into something else, something...
The Philosophical Future
Mans Psychic Journey: End or Beginning?
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book surveys the breadth of mankind’s postmodern malaise, which is achieved through a discussion of the major challenges, social and psychological, which every individual faces in the effort to live fully in the twenty-first century. These challenges lay in broadly familiar domains: self- and...
How Stories Heal
Writing our Way to Meaning and Wholeness in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
It is time for academics to embrace the fact that nothing is more appealing to readers – especially to our students – than personal stories with meaning-making implications that can touch all lives. No matter the age or stage in life, the personal or collective identity, everyone deals with meaning-making...
Unprepared for What We Learned
Six Action Research Exercises That Challenge the Ends We Imagine for Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Unprepared for What We Learned: Six Action Research Exercises that Challenge the Ends We Imagine for Education explores how twentieth century models of education are not delivering on their promises, or helping to deliver the promise of the next generation. We hear that our students are not prepared,...