peter lang dez 2009 (331 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Since its introduction in 1998, Finding Freedom in the Classroom has impacted countless educators and preservice teachers by providing provocative questions about taken-for-granted educational routines as well as an alternative, imaginative view of what classrooms might become. This revised edition brings the conversation to the present day with contemporary examples and references to the best current thinking and writing on relevant issues. By defining terms in everyday language and demonstrating their relevance to everyday life in and out of the classroom, the book demystifies such formidable concepts as hegemony, epistemology, and praxis for readers with little or no background in educational philosophy. Each chapter in this edition ends with several thought-provoking discussion questions and an annotated list of suggestions for further reading, which together provide a sturdy bridge between the theoretical and the practical. Finding Freedom in the Classroom can help teachers both imagine and build new classroom worlds, empowering students and teachers alike to actively shape ¿ rather than passively accept ¿ their fates.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Situated in education policy analysis, this book is at the cutting edge of major debates across the social sciences regarding the nature of science, qualitative/quantitative tensions, post-foundational possibilities, and the research/policy nexus. Located between «the aftermath of poststructuralism» and the «new scientism» afoot in neoliberal audit culture, the book posits an engaged social science that is accountable to complexity and the political value of not being so sure. Its insistence is to put deconstruction to work in the midst of messiness, contingency, and ambiguity. The book will be useful in courses on education, feminist policy analysis, and qualitative research across disciplines.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Truths and Myths of Cyber-bullying features the work of internationally reputed researchers and program directors concerned with issues of cyber-bullying and internet safety. The book contains three sections, organizing the content for easy reference and classroom use. The first section introduces readers to the various ways in which researchers conceptualize cyber-bullying; the second provides a comprehensive review of legal considerations and communication rights; and the final section reviews a sampling of intervention programs designed to help build safer communities. Each chapter contributes to dispelling common myths about technology and develops an appreciation of the potential roles and responsibilities of a wide spectrum of stakeholders. 328 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Out of Bounds explores the trajectories and challenges of exceptional men and women athletes who later became outstanding academic scholars. The book reports findings from participatory, qualitative research, and problematizes ways we have come to think about the separation and integration of athletic and academic practices ¿ embodied in both institutions and individuals, and reflected through intersecting categories and experiences of race, gender, and social class. Through the provocative and surprising narratives of gifted athletes who became prolific scholars, this book offers significantly new ways of thinking about the connections, contradictions, and possibilities of sports and schools.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Pornography has always been central to debates about sex and emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly focused on online pornographies. This collection examines pornography¿s significance as a focus of definition, debate, and myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment industry; and the emergence of the new economy of Porn 2.0, and of new types of porn labor and professionalism. It looks at porn style behind the scenes of straight hardcore, in gay, lesbian, and queer pornographies, in shock sites, and in amateur erotica, and investigates the rise of the online porn fan community, the sex blogger, the erotic rate-me site and the visual cultures of swingers. Treating these developments as part of a broader set of economic and cultural transformations, this book argues that new porn practices reveal much about contemporary and competing views of sex and the self, the real and the body, culture, and commerce.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Media Education Goes to School examines the struggles involved in integrating media education across the curriculum at a small urban school. Based on quasi-ethnographic research ¿ specifically semi-formal individual and group interviews with twenty-one participants and participant-observation ¿ the text focuses on how students understand and make meaning of media education in their schools, and what they know about urban education and urban school reform. The book argues against the neoliberal ethos that continuously harms urban youth and the rhetoric of new school reform that replicates, not heals, subjected social positions. Media education is a necessity in secondary schooling, but it cannot be thoroughly integrated into schools until significant structural changes are made in education: this book positions the site of change through the struggles students express with their own experience of education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book makes a strong case for free schooling, comparing the mind of Albert Einstein ¿ who said much ¿ to Zen conscious practice, which says little but encompasses everything. Examining the work of brain researchers, neuroscientists, physicists, and other scholars to illuminate the commonalities between Einstein¿s thought and the Zen practice of paying attention to one¿s present experience, the book reveals their many similarities, showing the development of self-direction as a key to fostering compassionate consideration of others and to harmonious, semi-effortless learning and living. Examples demonstrate that students who choose to study what is interesting, remarkable, and important for them tend to become more like Einstein than students with the rigid school curricula; students who are free to learn often demonstrate empathy, and less rigid rule-following, while involved in the process of imaginatively becoming their own oracles and self-educators. 262 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -What is the cultural politics of science, health, and disease in the U.S. Bodies Out of Control explores this question through a series of case studies. From its in-depth examination of the discussions of sickle-cell anemia, schistosomiasis, and cancer in middle school and high school textbooks to its analysis of the news coverage of the anthrax attacks of 2001, the book reveals the entanglements of science, colonialism, nationalism, and identity. The book also explores how the meaning of science itself is worked through in public discourses, offering alternatively medical salvation, confusion, and a vision of a world without pleasure. Finally, to explore what agency and a critical practice of engaging science in classrooms and elsewhere might look like, the book turns to the writings of politicized human research subjects, which demonstrate a spectrum of possibilities for more democratic engagements with science. As a whole, the book emphasizes the importance of engaging texts critically in science education and the ways that the cultural politics of science works through images of human and institutional bodies in and out of control.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Law, policy, and practice in the United States has long held that students with disabilities ¿ including those with intellectual disabilities ¿ have the right to a free and appropriate public education, in a non-restrictive environment. Yet very few of these students are fully included in general education classrooms. Educational systems use loopholes to segregate students; universities regularly fail to train teachers to include students; and state regulators fail to provide the necessary leadership and funding to implement policies of inclusion. Whatever Happened to Inclusion reports on the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities from national and state perspectives, outlining the abject failure of schools to provide basic educational rights to students with significant disabilities in America. The book then describes the changes that must be made in teacher preparation programs, policy, funding, and local schools to make the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities a reality.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedagogy play in the face of such burgeoning catastrophe Drawing upon a range of theoretical influences ¿ including Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Herbert Marcuse, traditional ecological knowledge, and the cognitive praxis produced by today¿s grassroots activists in the alter-globalization, animal and earth liberation, and other radical social movements ¿ this book offers the foundations of a philosophy of ecopedagogy for the global north. In so doing, it poses challenges to today¿s dominant ecoliteracy paradigms and programs, such as education for sustainable development, while theorizing the needed reconstruction of critical pedagogy itself in light of our presently disastrous ecological conditions. Students and teachers of critical pedagogy at all levels, as well as those involved in environmental studies and various forms of sustainability education, will find this book a powerful provocation to adjust their thinking and practice to better align with those who seek to abolish forms of culture predicated upon planetary extermination and the domination of nature.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -In 1897, William Randolph Hearst said that his newspaper did not simply cover events that had already happened. «It doesn¿t wait for things to turn up», Hearst said. «It turns them up.» This book traces the close relationship between media and the United States¿ development from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. It explores how the active voice of citizen-journalists and trained media professionals has turned to media to direct the moral compass of the people and to set the agenda for a nation, and discusses how changes in technology have altered the way in which participatory journalism is practiced. What makes the book powerful is that its assessment of the influence and use of media encompasses many levels: it explores the potential of media as an agent for change from within small communities to the national stage.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This revised, expanded collection provides practical and theoretical knowledge for undergraduate writing associates and graduate teaching assistants. Unlike similar collections, this volume is comprised largely of pieces authored by tutors themselves, offering hands-on advice for current classmates and future tutors; thus the volume highlights specific issues that arise when writing associates and novice teachers actually attempt to practice their craft. When used in pedagogy courses, the essays can serve both as sources of instruction about tutoring and teaching and as models for students¿ own course papers. This edition incorporates fifteen new essays to complement the best selections from the first edition.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 408 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Politiker sind heutzutage auf die Vermittlung ihrer Politik durch Massenmedien angewiesen, wenn sie ihre Wähler erreichen wollen. Journalisten als «Gatekeeper» fällen keine politischen Entscheidungen, legen aber fest, wie Politik dargestellt wird und welche Themen wann und wie auf die Agenda gesetzt werden. Was bedeutet dies für die demokratische Qualität einer Gesellschaft Sind Politiker heute Experten politischer Kommunikation Haben Journalisten nicht nur die Macht über die mediale Darstellung, sondern auch politische Macht Diesen und anderen für eine Demokratie essentiellen Fragen widmet sich dieses Buch. Die Beiträge von Journalisten, Politikern, Pressesprechern und Wissenschaftlern werfen von mehreren Seiten Licht auf die Beziehung von Politik und Medien in der bundesdeutschen Hauptstadt. 166 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The nine essays in this volume deal with major achievements in the German novel since 1959. They range from the very well known, such as Brussig¿s Helden wie wir, an extravagant treatment of life under the Stasi and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the much more recondite, such as Hubert Fichte¿s Detlevs Imitationen «Grünspan», one of the first, and most important, products of the abolition of the discrimination against gays in 1969. What is most surprising about this collection is that, in contrast to the majority of successful novels written in German before 1959, only one of these is by a clearly ¿West¿ German author: Hubert Fichte. There is, by contrast, a surprising number who have their roots in the GDR (Plenzdorf, Wolf, Brussig, Schulze), or in Austria (Bachmann, Bernhard). This is also a period in which women writers emerge powerfully (Bachmann, Wolf, and Özdamar). Virtually all these novels aroused controversy in some quarters at the time of their publication, often for their treatment of semi-taboo, or at least uncomfortable, subject-matter.These essays, all by specialists in the relevant field, were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge. 174 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The works of Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë are saturated with spatial metaphors, their composition inevitably reflecting Victorian concepts of gender and the ideology of ¿separate spheres¿. Questioning the binary interpretation of incarceration and flight, this study focuses on how, through a transgression of narrated, textual, and metaphorical spaces, the Brontës¿ feminine protagonists show the ideological divide between male and female spaces to be more permeable than previously acknowledged. Applying the spatial concepts of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, this study examines how the normative dichotomy of the ¿separate spheres¿ in the selected novels is destabilized through a transgression of literary spaces. 122 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This study consists of three essays that analyze mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the banking and REIT industries. Each of them aims to fill a gap in existing research literature. The first essay examines four case studies on the success of mergers in the German public banking sector. The second analyzes wealth effects of European cross-border M&A in the banking industry for bidder and target shareholders; it also assesses the effects of applying the same transactions on a large sample of European rivals. The third essay investigates wealth effects of international M&A in the REIT industry for bidder and target. 150 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson's fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroticism, language and time, constituting areas within which Winterson's characters seek their identity. As they contest and repudiate clichés, stereotypes and patterns, their journey of self-discovery is accomplished through transgression. The book analyzes how the subversion of phallogocentric narrative and scenarios entails the reenvisaging of relations between the genders and reconceptualization of female desire. The author attempts to determine the consequences of Winterson's manipulations with gender, sexuality and time, and her disruption of the binary system. 214 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Three Voices from the Galilee is the third in a series of volumes meant to present the short fiction of Mohammad Naffaa, a political activist, Zaki Darwish, an educator, and Naji Daher, a journalist. These stories faithfully record the development of the various aspects of what is paradoxically called Israeli-Palestinian life. Readers of this volume will encounter serious stories strewn with light and humorous scenes and stories of intense love mixed with stories of the unusual. Story after story presents a different choice in terms of point of view, gender and setting. Each character is exciting and convincing. While casual readers of this volume will taste the flavor of a different culture, scholars interested in Arabic literature will be provided with new arenas for academic evaluations and critique.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 122 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The abundant historical research literature on modernisation processes, social change and adult education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries clearly demonstrates the diverse formulations throughout Europe of the ¿social question¿ as one of the key issues in the development and organisation of adult education. Interpretations of the ¿social question¿ and adult learning were negotiated in relation to contemporary economic, political, social and cultural realities. Economic, political, social and cultural changes associated with modernisation processes throughout Europe all impacted upon thinking and action with regard to the organisation of adult education for the ¿popular¿ or ¿working¿ classes.Une abondante littérature européenne sur l¿histoire du processus de modernisation, du changement social et de l¿éducation et la formation des adultes au XIX et XX siècles, montre clairement que les différentes déclinaisons de la question sociale à travers l¿Europe constituent un enjeu majeur du développement et de l¿organisation de l¿éducation et de la formation des adultes. Différentes interprétations de la question sociale et de l¿accès au savoir des adultes ont été élaborées en fonction des réalités économiques, politiques, sociales et culturelles contemporaines. Les changements économiques, politiques, sociaux et culturels, ainsi que le processus d¿industrialisation partout en Europe ont eu un impact sur les idées et sur le développement d¿actions d¿éducation du « peuple » ou des classes « laborieuses ». 234 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson¿s fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroticism, language and time, constituting areas within which Winterson¿s characters seek their identity. As they contest and repudiate clichés, stereotypes and patterns, their journey of self-discovery is accomplished through transgression. The book analyzes how the subversion of phallogocentric narrative and scenarios entails the reenvisaging of relations between the genders and reconceptualization of female desire. The author attempts to determine the consequences of Winterson¿s manipulations with gender, sexuality and time, and her disruption of the binary system. 214 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This volume offers some new perspectives on the role of linguistic ideologies in forging the link between ¿language¿ and ¿nation¿. Language ideologies informing the discourse of linguistic nationalism can be assigned to three different categories, namely ¿ideology in language¿, ¿ideology about language¿, and ¿ideology in linguistics¿. The individual contributions to this volume examine how ideologically charged beliefs about the correlation between ¿language¿ and ¿nation¿ developed. They also look into the consequences of linguistic nationalism in different areas: in linguistic conflicts, in public debates about the national language and its character, and in the very formation of modern linguistics as a discipline. 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Syria represents a society in transition, where a fundamental change is taking place. This change concerns economic, industrial and societal transformation and last but not least those of Syriäs educational system, particularly regarding its higher education. This book keeps records of the Tempus project «Quality University Management and Institutional Autonomy» and its outcomes in terms of a best practice model through an externally proven evaluation. The theoretical contributions contain a multitude of references to relevant literature, such as questions of accreditation, functions and design of universities¿ mission statement as well as the implementation of quality management and evaluation in higher education institutions. Furthermore, the book refers to fundamental cognitions and experiences in adaption of international standards towards a dynamically changing higher education landscape in Syria. 270 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Contributor Martin Padget¿s essay: «Native Americans, the Photobook and the Southwest: Ansel Adams¿s and Mary Austin¿s Taos Pueblo was awarded the 2010 Arthur Miller Essay Prize.This book is an integrated collection of essays on the interface between literature and photography, as exemplified in important North American texts. The aspects of this increasingly debated topic treated here include: the evidential nature of the photographic image; evocations of photographs in poetry and fiction; ways in which photographs ¿illustrate¿ literary works; the status and function of words in photographic anthologies; and the formal structure(s) of full-blown interactions of the verbal and the visual in works that constitute ¿photo-texts¿. Contributors to the volume probe ways of reading particular and often celebrated combinations of words and photographs as cultural documents of their time ¿ and ours. Achieving a better understanding of their social context often illuminates important themes of American history, such as ethnic, regional, class or gender identification and difference.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 302 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Bildungspolitisch plausible Antworten auf die aktuelle und zukünftige wirtschaftlich-wissenschaftliche Konkurrenzsituation Deutschlands sind Qualifizierungsinitiativen und Hightech-Strategien, ferner Innovations- und Investitionsprogramme sowie internationale Bildungszusammenarbeit und Förderung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler. Die aus Sicht der Bildungspolitik technokratisch stringent aufgestellten Grundsätze und abgeleiteten Maßnahmen sind jedoch aus kritisch-pädagogischer Sicht inhärent unstimmig. Die Untersuchung zielt auf grundsätzliche Inkonsistenzen der outputorientierten Instrumente bildungspolitischer Qualitätssteuerung und weist einer Reihe antifunktionaler Widersprüche in bildungspolitischen Vorhaben nach. 142 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -A majority of the chapters in this book were originally presented as papers at a conference held at Queen¿s University Belfast in September 2006. The volume explores the oral-written dynamic in the conte français/francophone, focusing on key aspects of the relationship between oral and written forms of the conte. The chapters fall into four broad thematic areas (the oral-written dynamic in early modern France; literary appropriations and transformations; postcolonial contexts; storytelling in contemporary France: linguistic strategies). Within these broad areas, some chapters deal with sources and influences (such as that of written on oral and vice versa), others with the nature of the discourse resulting from an oral-written dynamic (discourse structure, linguistic features etc.), some with the oral-written interface as it affects the definition of genre, others with the role of the ¿oral¿ within the literary or written text (use of storytelling scenarios, the problematics inherent in transcribing/adapting the spoken word etc.). This chronological and methodological range allows us to situate the emergence of the form in socio-cultural and historical terms, and to open up debate around the role of the conte in particular geographical and political contexts: regional, national, European and postcolonial.This book contains contributions in both English and French.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 328 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book brings together original, peer-reviewed research providing new perspectives on the status quo and challenges for the future of Queer Theory / Queer Studies.Drawing inspiration from the conference in Queer Studies that was held at Canterbury Christ Church University in February and March 2009, the chapters offer analyses and insights into changing academic and public discourses on sexual and gender normativities within a wide multi- and trans-disciplinary scope.Transcending the binary axis of homo- vs. heterosexuality, the book analyzes, queries, and challenges multiple overt and hidden heteronormative and gender binarist assumptions; in six larger areas, paradigmatic discourses in academia and public life are discussed: Queered Identities, Queer Politics, Queering Public Discourses, Queering the Classroom, Pop Queer, and Queer Readings.The contributing authors represent the wide spectrum of scholarship engaged with Queer Theory, including political and social science, philosophy, history, literary criticism, cultural studies, education, psychology, and legal studies. They conversely and discursively contribute to the evaluation, reformulation, and if appropriate reclaiming of academic approaches in Queer Studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 358 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Horace¿s Satires have a distinctly dialogic quality ¿ not for nothing does Horace himself choose to call these poems sermones, ¿conversations¿. Even when formally presented as monologues, the Satires seem to be speeches actively addressed to their recipients, cognisant of their audiences, and full of the ¿voices¿ of others. This book applies theories on dialogue by the twentieth-century Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin to Horace¿s Satires. Bakhtinian key concepts such as polyphony, heteroglossia, addressivity and authoritative discourse are investigated and found to be useful in understanding Horace¿s work.Far from getting bogged down in theory, however, this is a book which uses some of Bakhtin¿s ideas to tease out fresh insights into Horace¿s Satires. The author reads Horace¿s poems as ¿little dramas¿ ¿ interactions between speakers, interlocutors, addressees, and audiences. What is Horace¿s real motive for lecturing on miserly greed in his first satire Who is the modern Hollywood star whom Horace most closely resembled What is Horace doing while Damasippus rattles on, recounting the words of his guru Stertinius, in Satires 2.3 The answers to these and other questions are suggested in this book.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 360 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -La réconciliation est-elle un mode de règlement des conflits, fondé sur le consensus ou est-ce plutôt une sorte de « bouée de sauvetage » pour les pouvoirs en place, un instrument de mise au pas des contestataires A-t-elle à voir avec une stratégie de défense d¿une position, d¿un ordre politique sous le couvert de la paix Quelle est la finalité de la réconciliation Peut-on la concevoir en dehors de la réhabilitation, de la reconnaissance et du respect du droit égalitaire Quelles raisons peuvent valider la réconciliation comme opportunité ou comme source de dynamiques et de structurations sociales démocratiques Quelles sont les conditions propices à l¿actualisation des potentialités intégratrices de la réconciliation Comment faire pour que les citoyens ne soient pas les laissés-pour-compte de la réconciliation et de la paix qui sont essentielles à l¿épanouissement Face à la multiplicité des scènes de réconciliation un peu partout dans le monde, l¿étude tente de clarifier la notion pour en définitive apprécier sous quelles conditions, elle peut promouvoir la paix civile, l¿épanouissement en donnant au citoyen, une fois le cérémonial du processus passé, la possibilité d¿être un acteur de la vie sociale. 224 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility underscores the writing of authors who foreground the female body and who write across geographical borders, as part of a global literary movement that has the French language as its common denominator. This edited collection exposes how female authors portray the tensions that exist between visibility and invisibility, public and private, presence and absence, and excess and restraint when it is linked to femininity and the female body.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 162 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book provides the first systematic description of the linguistic accommodation of Moravian migrants in Bohemia. By analyzing the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from different parts of Moravia living at a hall of residence in Prague, the author investigates part of an unsubstantiated and ideologically motivated dialect contact hypothesis according to which in informal, everyday communication Moravians in Bohemia accommodate not in the direction of the standard dialect but to Common Czech, a non-standard interdialect that is spoken throughout Bohemia. The study combines a quantitative analysis of six linguistic variables with an ethnographic study of informants¿ linguistic and social behaviour. A primary objective of the study is to identify the impact of various social criteria on informants¿ acquisition of Common Czech forms. 292 pp. Englisch.