Peter Lang: 4879 books
The Critical Graduate Experience
An Ethics of Higher Education Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Critical Graduate Experience is a collection of scholarly reflections on the possibilities of a new vision for critical studies. It is a remarkable book that provides daring analyses from the vantage of the graduate student experience. Drawing from individual knowledge and research, the authors...
The Education Doctorate (Ed.D.)
Issues of Access, Diversity, Social Justice, and Community Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This first-of-its-kind text explores the Ed.D. program as a crucible for equitable higher education and community leadership. It was inspired in part by the Carnegie Project on the Educational Doctorate (CPED) and, more broadly, by widespread international interest in the power of the Ed.D. as a force...
Going Inward
The Role of Cultural Introspection in College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Going Inward is a pragmatic text for faculty in all disciplines who desire to deepen their reflection on teaching. Through the culturally introspective writings of faculty in a variety of academic disciplines, readers will gain a deeper understanding of faculty cultural influences on college teaching...
RIP Jim Crow
Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lying silent and still in his grave.
This book shouts out ways that we can and must respond to the sickening accumulation of racially inspired and systemically sanctioned deaths. Today, we remember the passing of young, Black Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
From the Lab to the Classroom and Back Again
Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting Training
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This collection of essays brings to the fore some of the most pressing concerns in the training of translators and interpreters. It does so by acknowledging the primary role of research in both the development and the results of that training. The eleven chapters of the book, authored by a range of...
by Eva Reid
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Slovak education, including foreign language education, is going through curricular reform. Even though the development of intercultural communicative competences is claimed to be one of the key aims of foreign language teaching, recent research suggests that most teaching time is devoted to the development...
Higher Education and Second Language Learning
Promoting Self-Directed Learning in New Technological and Educational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This volume explores the challenges involved in facilitating student learning of second languages at university level. Easy access to information and communication technologies inside and outside the classroom, alongside an increasing tendency for students to play an active role in shaping their own...
Transforming Education
Global Perspectives, Experiences and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America engage in educational programs and practices to transform the learning processes and outcomes of their students. It reveals and analyzes national...
Diaspora, Food and Identity
Nigerian Migrants in Belgium
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits.
The author...
Critical Studies of Southern Place
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the South past and present. It promotes and expands the notion of a Southern epistemology. Authors from across the South write about such diverse topics as Southern...
by Lidia Kozubek
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book explores the artistic principles of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, his concert activities, his art of piano playing, as well as his pedagogy and his attitude towards his students. The author presents the biographical data of the artist as well as the list of his recordings and introduces...
Online-Beratung im Gruppenchat fuer Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene
Zwischen Leichtigkeit und Tiefgang
Language: German
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Virtuelle Beratungsräume statt personaler Begegnung? Vor allem für junge Menschen bietet die leichte Verfügbarkeit eine Chance, fachliche Hilfestellung wie qualifizierte psychologische Beratung ohne große Hürden zugänglich zu machen. Im Gruppenchat als hybrider Form kann sowohl Fachkompetenz...
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Language: German
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Der Musik an den Welfenhöfen kam im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert eine überregionale Bedeutung zu, wie die in diesem Band vereinten Beiträge unterstreichen. Insbesondere in Wolfenbüttel und Hannover wirkten bedeutende Musiker, darunter Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz, Antonio Sartorio, Agostino...
Sŏwŏn Konfuzianische Privatakademien in Korea
Wissensinstitutionen der Vormoderne
Language: German
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Sŏwŏn waren konfuzianische Privatakademien, die sich seit Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts in Korea rasch verbreiteten. Sie waren Orte der Generierung, Weitergabe und Stabilisierung verschiedener Formen von Wissen, aber auch Institutionen mit eigenständigen Ordnungen, die ihr eigenes Funktionieren wie...