Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Screen Lessons
What We Have Learned from Teachers on Television and in the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This unprecedented volume includes 30 essays by teachers and students about the teacher characters who have inspired them. Drawing on film and television texts, the authors explore screen lessons from a variety of perspectives. Arranged in topical categories, the contributors examine the "good"...
People Need to Know
Confronting History in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create...
Educating All
Developing Inclusive School Cultures From Within
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This book contributes significantly to the conversation about inclusion as a critical component of school culture. Educating All recounts Christopher McMaster’s experience as a critical ethnographer in a school community, given the task of not only studying the institution’s culture, but of creating...
Relational and Responsive Inclusion
Contexts for Becoming and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Socially unjust circumstances continue to perpetuate inadequate classroom, school and system-level responses to longstanding social justice imperatives, shutting out power-sharing solutions to educational disparities and marginalizing populations of Indigenous and minoritized peoples. To address these...
Critical Examinations of Quality in Early Education and Care
Regulation, Disqualification, and Erasure
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Quality rating systems discourses and practices are increasingly dominating early childhood care and education around the globe. These rating systems are constructed with the assumption that universally appropriate environments can be constructed for all those who are younger. This deterministic,...
Black Queer Identity Matrix
Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This volume launches the first sustained discussion of the need for a queer of color conceptual framework around Black, lesbian female identity. Specifically, this volume addresses the necessity for a more integrated framework within queer studies, in which the variables of race/ethnicity are taken...
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry
Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qualitative approaches to the study of educational contexts, issues, and phenomena. It presents a collection of innovative and intellectually stimulating chapters...
Contemporary Anarchist Criminology
Against Authoritarianism and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Contemporary Anarchist Criminology: Against Authoritarianism and Punishment offers a cutting-edge critical assessment of criminology by creating provocative discussions regarding business as usual in the criminal justice system. This exciting interdisciplinary book explores a diversity of topics that...
Education for Total Liberation
Critical Animal Pedagogy and Teaching Against Speciesism
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Education for Total Liberation is a collection of essays from leaders in the field of critical animal pedagogy (CAP). CAP emerges from activist educators teaching critical animal studies and is rooted in critical theory as well as the animal advocacy movement. Critical animal studies (CAS) argues...
by Yvonne Downs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Ivor Goodson is an immense and vital contributor to the study of education and to educational research. His influence extends across continents, taking in theory and practice, and including topics as diverse as curriculum history and the history of school subjects; change management and reform; teachers’...
City of Christian Love
The History and Importance of Nazareth
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
City of Christian Love provides a detailed history of Nazareth from the dawn of the Christian Era until today with special focus on the religious communities found in this sacred city, including both the periods of tension and the periods of profound interreligious partnership and solidarity.
Old Paths and New Ways
Negotiating Tradition and Relevance in Liturgy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The relationship between tradition and relevance is a core feature in religious practice in general and public worship in particular. On the one hand, worship is a bearer of religious traditions, i.e. traditions are maintained in the practice of public worship, and the worship enables individuals...
Todays College Students
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
America’s undergraduates truly represent a mind-boggling diversity. Today’s College Students: A Reader looks at a wide variety of student groups and identities, which sets it apart from other texts on contemporary college students that do not cover such a broad spectrum. The editors and contributors...
Media Literacy is Elementary
Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media- Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book provides a practical and theoretical look at how media education can make learning and teaching more meaningful and transformative. This second edition includes more resources, photographs, and updated information as well as two new chapters: one exploring the pedagogical potential for using...