Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Storying
A Path to Our Future: Artful Thinking, Learning, Teaching, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This is a book about story, the human experience, teaching and learning, creativity and community. Story is so much more than decoding text and writing using academic language. It also includes literature and all forms of the arts; digital forms of story, from social media to documentation of history;...
Researching the Writing Center
Towards an Evidence-Based Practice, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Researching the Writing Center is the first book-length treatment of the research base for academic writing tutoring. The book reviews the current state of writing center scholarship, arguing that although practitioner-researchers continue to value anecdotal and experiential evidence, they must also...
Happiness, Hope, and Despair
Rethinking the Role of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as happiness...
Mobile and Ubiquitous Media
Critical and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
What does the phrase "ubiquitous media" actually mean? Individual definitions are just as varied and ubiquitous as the media to which they refer. As a result, there is to date no large-scale theoretical framework through which we can understand the term. The goal of this volume is to provide...
Citizen Journalism
Global Perspectives- Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; Providing a new set of case studies...
Emerging South Asian Women Writers
Essays and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This volume was conceived as a space to provide visibility for South Asian women writers whose work has not had much exposure in the West. It contributes to the knowledge of South Asian women writers by including scholarship not only on little-known writers but also by scholars from India – in particular,...
Digital Orientations
Non-Media-Centric Media Studies and Non-Representational Theories of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Might it be possible to rearticulate the term digital in digital media, so that it refers at least as much to the deft movements or orientations of hands and fingers (of digits) as it does to the new media technologies themselves? What if digital media are understood as manual media?
Has the...
Reformation Worlds
Antecedents and Legacies in the Anglican Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
A reassessment of the precedents, course, and legacy of the Reformation has occurred in the present generation of academic writing. This collection of essays brings together research by established and new scholars on themes of the Reformation with a particular focus on its antecedents and legacies...
Adapting Shahrazads Odyssey
The Female Wanderer and Storyteller in Victorian and Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Adapting Shahrazad’s Odyssey: The Female Wanderer and Storyteller in Victorian and Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature focuses on a comparative study of the figure of the female traveler and storyteller in nineteenth-century Victorian literature and contemporary Anglophone Middle Eastern writing....
Shakespeare and Saturn
Accounting for Appearances
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe as was generally believed, but that the sun lay there instead. The relegation of the Earth to the rank of an orbiting planet meant that humankind lost its privileged position as well, thus prompting...
Ibrahim Mlik
The Culture of Peace and Co-Existence Translated by Jamal Assadi, with Assistance from Michael Hegeman and Michael Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This selection of Ibrahim Mālik’s short stories and poetry brings together an illustrative compendium of his works, which propose a genuine portrait of the numerous predicaments, concerns, apprehensions, and coercions from which the Arab community inside Israel suffers. To a great extent, these...
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age
New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age tells the story of a group of K–12 teachers as they began to connect with digital making and learning pedagogies. Guiding questions at the heart of this qualitative case study asked how teaching practices engaged with and responded to the maker movement and digital...
Dreams and Deception
Sports Lure, Racism, and Young Black Males' Struggles in Sports and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book helps young black males, educators, policy makers, parents, and all other interested parties to understand the importance of education alongside athletic pursuits. In the world today, many young black males view athletic participation as the way to secure a successful future. Yet for the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Humanitarianism, Communications and Change is the first book to explore humanitarianism in today’s rapidly changing media and communications environment. Based on the latest academic thinking alongside a range of professional, expert and insider views, the book brings together some of the most authoritative...