Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Beyond Actions
Psychology of Action Research for Mindful Educational Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Beyond Actions is a new breed of book on action research, going beyond procedural descriptions of action research and discusses psychological processes and epistemological challenges involved in planning and conducting action research. The book discusses in depth key concepts of action research and...
by Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Vygotsky and the Promise of Public Education recontextualizes the scholarship of educator and psychologist Lev Vygotsky, highlighting its relevance to contemporary issues in public education. Emphasizing the historical, social, and cultural formation of conscious awareness, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Becoming a Great Inclusive Educator, Second Edition offers educators the guidance and resources to become great inclusive educators by engaging in a powerful process of personal and professional transformation. Inclusive education continues to grow in popularity and acceptance in the United States....
New Literacies and Teacher Learning
Professional Development and the Digital Turn
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
New Literacies and Teacher Learning examines the complexities of teacher professional development today in relation to new literacies and digital technologies, set within the wider context of strong demands for teachers to be innovative and to improve students’ learning outcomes. Contributors hail...
Representing Youth with Disability on Television
Glee, Breaking Bad, and Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Representing Youth with Disability on Television is a complex and multidimensional mainstream cultural discourse that examines specific stereotypes in fictional programming. The book draws attention to the group labeled as disabled, which is often marginalized, misrepresented, and misunderstood in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What is a «good life» and how can it be achieved? In this volume, communication scholars and media experts explore these fundamental questions about human existence and aspiration in terms of what a «good life» might look like in a contemporary, mediatized society. While in many ways a mediatized...
Intersectionality & Higher Education
Theory, Research, & Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. A scholar of law, critical race theory, and Black feminist thought, Crenshaw used intersectionality to explain the experiences of Black women who – because of the intersections of race, gender, and class – are exposed to exponential...
Latinas/os on the East Coast
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Latinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive overview of established and contemporary research and essays written about communities that represent the Latina/o diaspora on the East Coast of the United States. Collectively, it contributes to the historical, cultural, political,...
Coming out of the Closet
Exploring LGBT Issues in Strategic Communication with Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Despite representing significant portions of the advertising, marketing, and public relations work force, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community has largely been ignored by scholarly research in strategic communications. With the exception of case studies that document strategies...
Glocal English
The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian...
Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity
Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles’ play, parricide – the killing of a parent or another close relative – has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide, for much of the twentieth...
by Susan Bernheimer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Voices of Early Childhood Educators presents powerful, living stories of early childhood students and practitioners. Susan Bernheimer clearly shows the importance of their stories for understanding the challenges now facing our field, including valuable insights into new forms of resilience and development....
by Bob Coulter
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Building Kids’ Citizenship Through Community Engagement offers a compelling, empirically-based argument for giving young people opportunities to grow through productive involvement with their local community. Drawing on John Dewey’s pragmatic frame of experience and concepts of bildung that inform...
by Carey Candrian
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
While health care at the end of life is changing, the language for talking about treatment options and patient preferences around the end of life is taking longer to change. This book carefully details the way language shapes decisions around end-of-life care. Using ethnographic research from two...