Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research
Reflections and Advice from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Action research can be a transformative learning experience that strengthens educators’ practice and empowers our voices. For the novice action researcher, however, it can sometimes be frustrating, isolating, and overwhelming. Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research is an outstanding...
Reel Education
Documentaries, Biopics, and Reality Television
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Reel Education is the first single-authored book to bring together the theoretical and practical considerations of teaching cinematic texts about education that claim a degree of verisimilitude. Given the recent influx of documentaries, biopics, and reality television shows about education, new theoretical...
Written in Her Own Voice
Ethno-educational Autobiographies of Women in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women’s advancement, educational success, and life aspirations. Chapters provide thick, rich descriptions of the authors’ lives, using heuristic and phenomenological inquiry as guiding theoretical frameworks....
Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect
On the Lives and Education of Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect presents a wide variety of concepts from scholars and practitioners who discuss pedagogies of kindness, an alternative to the «no excuses» ideology now dominating the way that children are raised and educated in the U.S. today. The fields of education, and especially...
Lost in Transnation
Alternative Narrative, National, and Historical Visions of the Korean-American Subject in Select 20th-Century Korean American Novels
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This volume examines the engagement with national histories, citizenship, and the larger transnational contexts in the narrative plot lines in selected twentieth-century Korean American novels. Critics have often expected, or even demanded, that the Korean American novel present the ideal and coherent...
The Breaking of Bread and the Breaking of Boundaries
A Study of the Metaphor of Bread in the Gospel of Matthew
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew’s narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew’s communal identity and ideological vision. The metaphor of bread and its...
Spectral Sea
Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean Sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the earliest...
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders between the Balkans and Europe
The Geopolitical and imaginary borders between the balkans and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine empires, this region has always been considered Europe’s border between the Orient and the Occident. Aiming to clarify the politics of drawing...
Developments
Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino literature, explores a significant but overlooked area in the literary production of the twentieth century:...
Pauls Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7
An African-Cameroonian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Paul’s Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7: An African-Cameroonian Perspective provides readers with an innovative interpretation of Paul’s pastoral and pedagogical approach and solutions to the multifaceted ethical problems presented to him by the Corinthian community, revealing a wide-ranging,...
Sanskrit Debate
Vasubandhus "Vīmśatik" versus Kumrilas "Nirlambanavda"
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu’s ‘Vīmśatikā’ versus Kumārila’s ‘Nirālambanavāda’ illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramānaśāstra) by introducing new translations of two Sanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other’s tradition of...
Farewell to Modernism
On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century is an original, pathbreaking, revolutionary, and totalizing critique of received Modernist ideas, including Modernist Utopianism. In that vein, it unseats virtually every dearly held myth of EuroModernist discourse. It offers a...
by Jean M. Szczypien
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published in Kuryer Polski (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the Czech Republic) on 26 August 1915,...
Revelation, History, and Truth
A Hermeneutics of Dogma
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
The general topic of this book concerns the ontology, epistemology, and teleology of the hermeneutics of dogma. In particular, the author addresses contemporary challenges faced by the necessity of maintaining the integrity of dogmatic truth of the Christian faith, of divine revelation and its transmission...