Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Curriculum as Spaces
Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book has won the «O.L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award» 2015 from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC)
Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development...
Injustice in Indian Country
Jurisdiction, American Law, and Sexual Violence Against Native Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Living at the intersection of multiple identities in the United States can be dangerous. This is especially true for Native women who live on the more than 56 million acres that comprise America’s Indian Country – the legal term for American Indian reservations and other land held in trust for...
Digital Proxemics
How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The study of proxemics – the human use of space – is reimagined for the digital age in this book, a compelling examination of the future of the ways we move. Whereas much writing on the subject focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what the same technology might...
Sympathy for the Cyberbully
How the Crusade to Censor Hostile and Offensive Online Speech Abuses Freedom of Expression
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
In the first systematic account of judicial rulings striking down cyberbullying laws in the United States and Canada, Sympathy for the Cyberbully offers an unapologetic defense of online acid-tongued disparagers and youthful and adult sexters. In the first decade of the 21st century, legitimate concerns...
Neo-PR
Public Relations in a Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Christopher Caldiero examines new ways of thinking about public relations practice in today’s technological and postmodern world. His concept of «Neo-PR» and its thought-provoking principles re-examines and re-frames modernistic notions of public relations for today’s burgeoning PR practitioners....
Trading Zones in Environmental Education
Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Environmental educators often adhere to a relatively narrow theoretical paradigm focusing on changing attitudes and knowledge, which are assumed to foster pro-environmental behaviors, which, in turn, leads to better environmental quality. This book takes a different approach to trying to understand...
Participatory Culture, Community, and Play
Learning from Reddit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What does online community look like in the age of social networking? How do participatory culture platforms reflect both their designers’ intentions and the desires of their users? In this incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how culture is created and challenged on Reddit.com,...
Effective Education for All
Implementing Positive Behavior Support in Early Childhood Through High School
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Effective Education for All deals with cultural-linguistic diversity and how to work in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. It is essential reading for teachers, administrators, parents of CLD students, and policy makers if we are to continue to see progress and success...
2284 World Society
Iaian Vernier's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
2284: World Society, Iaian Vernier’s Memoir is a fascinating study of mankind. Written as a work of fiction, it looks at the human condition 200 years in the future. Predicting the outcome of today’s social policies, 2284 is a cultural anthropology study that adds to Itzkoff’s extensive writing...
Curriculum*-in-the-Making
A Post-constructivist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Curriculum*-in-the-Making theorizes about the living curriculum as an event that is in the making, for the enacted curriculum is something finished, which, only as an object, can be compared to another object. A living curriculum, understood as an event*-in-the-making, leads to a very different appreciation...
Consulting That Matters
A Handbook for Scholars and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Each year, thousands of consulting contracts are awarded by organizations to experts who help them with challenges involving people, processes, technologies, goals, resource allocation, decision making, problem solving, and more. These experts – consultants – diagnose problems, recommend solutions,...
The Discursive-Material Knot
Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
The theoretical framework of the discursive-material knot consists out of a non-hierarchical ontology of the interactions of the discursive and the material, articulating the assemblages that are driven by this ontological setting as restless and contingent, sometimes incessantly changing shapes and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
The Communication Ecology of 21st Century Urban Communities addresses the questions of whether it (still) matters what neighborhood individuals live in and if it is still necessary and possible for city dwellers to build and maintain place-based communities.
The book’s contributors address...
A New Literacies Reader
Educational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
A New Literacies Reader is an introduction to social and cultural studies of new literacies from the perspectives of educators, education researchers and learners. It focuses on how participating in social practices of new literacies can be seen and understood in terms of people becoming insiders...