peter lang peter lang mai 2014 (223 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for the purpose of taking up PhD studies. They hail from different countries and academic backgrounds and obtained their degrees at different Finnish universities from Helsinki in the south of the country up to Oulu in the north. Moreover, they studied and conducted research at different faculties. The individual processes, academic, social, and cultural experiences and challenges form the core of the individual essays. 112 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Health and healthy life styles are something that we all would like to induce in our youths and children. This book provides a new perspective for health education. It represents Finnish ideas and solutions of health education and provides analyses of health promotion. In today¿s world, health education is expected to offer holistic information and increase understanding about the communal and environmental health issues along with individual choices and concern over fellow humans. This book presents a multidimensional analysis starting from the history of health education to the most current innovative health concepts. The book also includes hands-on examples of health promotion at various education levels. 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The state of acquiring more than one language as a child or an adult is not the exception; it is rather an everyday reality for a quite substantial part of today¿s society. This book explores the phenomenon of code-switching within the field of child bilingualism from both linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. Based on collected data from Kurdish-German pre-school bilingual children in Austria, this empirical study aims at giving an analysis of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors that constrain child code-switching. The book shows specific interest in practices of code switching and mixing as displayed by Kurdish subjects of the study and in how far these can be sufficiently explained by existing models of (adult) bilingual language behavior. The results clearly show that code-switching can be related to the identity and characteristics of the speakers or to aspects of their social life, and that it can be subconsciously used to manage conflict when different languages are associated with different roles in a community. 142 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Recently, voices were raised in the worldwide Christian ecumenical movement that it was high time the Protestant-Catholic fundamental topic «Holy Scripture and Tradition» was approached and ecumenically reviewed. In Germany, this has already been achieved by the «Ökumenischer Arbeitskreis evangelischer und katholischer Theologen» (Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians; founded in 1946). The results of this study group were published in the 1990s under the title «Verbindliches Zeugnis» by Theodor Schneider and Wolfhart Pannenberg. This edition provides the essence of the three volume work for the first time in English. The treatment of this age-long dispute in Protestant and Catholic theology, but first of all its fundamental settlement can thus be recognised and discussed in the international ecumenical dialogue. 174 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Quoting an abolitionist preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. once said, «The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice». This is true, but the moral arc doesn¿t bend on its own. We must lean into the task. Making Room for One Another is the story of how one kindergarten teacher did just that. This critical ethnography lies at the intersection of democratic, transformative pedagogy and differences that impact an urban kindergarten. Drawing largely on discourse analysis, the book explores the interplay between Zeke, the classroom teacher, and his students. The participation, resistance, and discourse patterns of one particular student exemplify the complex nature of social systems in general and emancipatory pedagogy in particular. All educators recognize their responsibility to hone students¿ cognitive abilities, to teach students to read and to write and to reason. Making Room for One Another is written for educators who dare ask themselves the question, «Read and write and reason about what To what end must students read and write and reason »Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Strategic Planning for Public Relations: Beginning the Journey is written for the next generation of public relations professionals. It takes account of the changing needs of the PR industry, where strategic thinking is needed in abundance but tends to be in short supply among many people who are just launching their careers. This book is designed to address this shortfall by providing a multi-level understanding of strategy to show how it directly correlates to successful public relations. The book¿s conversational tone and real world chapter exercises move the reader from insight to strategic vision and application. Exercises at the end of each chapter are designed to help students further explore, reflect on and apply what they have learned. The book¿s unique approach to strategy and strategic planning provides the tools for students becoming strategists first and tacticians second ¿ essential criteria for successful public relations professionals. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of education reform and innovation. Carefully attentive to both theory and practice, this is the definitive source for learning about education reform and innovation, while also enhancing the existing literature.This book attempts to move the field to the next phase of its evolution and provides the U.S. K-12 system with the tools that it will need to return to its former preeminence. Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation generates a corpus of new and original scholarship that significantly examines the field of education reform and innovation broadly conceived. Each chapter examines one or more of the critical topics that are missing from or underrepresented in the extant literature. The various chapters of this book integrate into their analyses the conceptual, political, pedagogical, and practical histories, tensions, and resources that have established education reform and innovation as one of the most vital and growing movements within the field of education. A central tenet of this project is that we need to make visible the multiple perspectives and theoretical frames that currently drivework in the field.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 190 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication calls for a revisioning of second language and literacy teaching, arguing for a move away from skills-based ESL instruction where communication is treated as a set of pedagogical techniques, toward a pedagogy of powerful communication that views communication as necessary for effective participation in school, relationships, local/global communities, and democratic society. This pedagogy promotes critical multiliteracies and language development through youth engagement in the practices of media and artistic communities in and out of school, online, and on the airwaves. The argument for a pedagogy of powerful communication draws on evidence from current research; recommended curriculum and pedagogies are described in detail; and case studies provide an in-depth look at processes of meaning making, identity work, knowledge and skill acquisition, and the key role that community mentors play in mediating youths¿ thinking, emotion, and creative productions. This book will be highly useful for teachers and professors of literacy and language education, as well as researchers and theorists in the areas of youth media and arts, community-school-university collaborations, youth development, and research methodologies for studying individual and collective change in the context of educational innovation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Emerging Perspectives on ¿African Development¿: Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. The book critically engages the many ways of presenting ¿development,¿ highlighting the interplay of tradition and modernity as well as contestations over knowledge production in ¿post-colonial¿ Africa. It offers cautionary words to field practitioners, researchers, and social theorists who work in development using language that is easily accessible to laypersons. This book is also for undergraduate and graduate courses on development, global education, rural development, and Africa studies. For readers looking for something new about Africa beyond the old stories of catastrophes and human misery, this book will be indispensable. It demonstrates that even in the face of many failures, tragedies, and suffering, Africäs stories can be told with hope and a sense of possibility.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Communication scholarship has not enjoyed the same kind of theoretical cohesion or ontological security as some disciplines. The field¿s intellectual «roving eye» and resistance to establishing a single core body of knowledge has inspired serial rounds of soul-searching and existential doubt among communication scholars, on one hand, and celebration and intellectual adventurism, on the other. The theme of the 2013 ICA annual conference thus raised an interesting question: For a field that is perpetually in flux and «decentered», what exactly is, or should be, challenged How, and by whom The chapters in this collection, chosen from among the top papers presented in London, suggest that the challenges themselves are constantly being reinvented, broken down and reorganized. The communication discipline undergoes continuous change rather than following an orderly, stepwise path toward the neat, complete accumulation of knowledge. The chapters challenge familiar approaches, notions or assumptions in communication research and scholarship and reflect on the field¿s multifaceted and increasingly open character in an era of shifting social relations, formations and technologies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a «social imaginary» where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment. No longer is «plain Canadian English» a site of investment, but instead, Black English as a second language (BESL) and «Hip-Hop all da way baby!» (as one student put it). The result of this dialectic space between language learning and identity investment is a complex, multilayered, and «rhizomatic third space,» where Canada meets and rubs shoulders with Africa in downtown Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal in such a way that it produces its own «ticklish subject» and pedagogy of imaginary and integrative anti-racism. 250 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Pierre Bourdieüs ideas have had a major impact on a number of fields of inquiry. As scholars of media and communication begin to think more frequently and more carefully with Bourdieüs ideas, this book offers a wealth of points of contact between Bourdieüs ideas and research topics concerning media and communication. This book addresses how Bourdieüs ideas can be used to raise questions concerning: media production, media audiences, symbolic authority, and the history of communication study. The result is a compact but comprehensive volume that gives the reader a sense of the scope and relevance of Bourdieüs ideas to a wide range of domains of study in communication research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book closely examines the processes governing the construction of literary spaces in the selected works of J.M. Coetzee, focusing in particular on the writer¿s subversive and destructive treatment of traditional modes of representation which participated in the imperial enterprise and served to overcome the ontological insecurity of colonisers. This strategy results in the formation of heterogenous, fluid and open locations which can be deciphered along the postmodern spatial theories of Foucault, Augé, Deleuze and Guattari. The transformation of topographies not only cleanses them of the conventional residue in preparation for alternative spatial rearrangements, but also initiates processes which reverse the colonising project by breaching the gap between the other and the self. 142 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware 190 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Internet¿s explosive growth over the past decade is nowhere more visible than in Asia. Fueled by an expanding middle class, thousands of people connect to the Internet for the first time each day to explore and discuss issues that are relevant to them and their lives.This book provides an in-depth look at the impact of social media on political engagement among young citizens in this rapidly changing region of the world. Leading media scholars from nine Asian nations focus on three main questions:How frequently do Asians use social media to access and discuss political information Does the use of social media increase political participation What political, social and cultural factors influence the impact of social media on political engagement in each nation To answer these questions, contributors first analyze the current state of social media in their nations and then present the findings of a cross-national survey on social media use that was conducted with over 3,500 Asian respondents. By employing a comparative approach, they analyze how social media function and interact with the cultural and political systems in each country ¿ and how they might affect political engagement among individual citizens.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 366 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -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 of just what is happening in a classroom. Events\* are understood to be in the making so we cannot know the precise nature of what we witness until after completion has been achieved. This book uses lesson fragments to develop a post-constructivist perspective on curriculum that is grounded in a phenomenological approach concerned with understanding the never-ending movement of life. This leads to radically different forms of understanding of curriculum issues such as the subject, ethics, the role of passibility and passivity, the nature of the response, and the learning paradox.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 246 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Inclusive education continues to grow in popularity and acceptance in the United States. However, most teachers ¿ general and special educators ¿ are poorly prepared to be successful in inclusive classrooms and schools. Undoubtedly, the challenge to professionals involves the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. But inclusion requires far more. It calls upon educators to trouble everything they think they know about disability, to question their deepest ethical commitments, to take up the work of the Disability Rights Movement in the public schools, and to leap headlong into the deepest waters of the rich craft tradition of inclusive teaching. This book offers educators the guidance and resources to become great inclusive educators by engaging in a powerful process of personal and professional transformation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 356 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Sex in the media is one of the hottest topics of the day. We know that advertising, television, cinema, and other forms of communication use sex to sell us products and pump up story lines. The question is: why are sex and sexuality such effective tools for getting our attention Sexing the Media: How and Why We Do It is a textbook that explores answers to this question through historical, sociological, psychological, and ideological perspectives. It explores how media and other social institutions use sex and sexuality (the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses) to advance economic and ideological interests.Cinema, music, music videos, television programs, advertising, and the Internet are discussed as carriers of deliberately constructed messages that contribute to and support a master narrative that privileges heterosexuality and monogamy.This interdisciplinary text includes contemporary case studies as examples that would be useful in courses in media, cultural studies, sociology, and psychology.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 342 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Ausgehend von der These, Demokratie brauche eine entsprechende Erziehung, wird angenommen, dass dies besonders für eine Demokratie gilt, die sich der Inklusion verpflichtet fühlt. Über eine historische Analyse exemplarischer Ethiken wird deutlich, dass hier in der Vergangenheit Menschen mit Behinderungen Menschenrechte nicht in vollem Umfang zugesprochen wurden. Daher wird die UN-Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen beleuchtet. Auf Basis der Disability Studies wird herausgearbeitet, welche Schnittmengen bereits in demokratiepädagogischen und inklusiven Ansätzen von Erziehung zu erkennen sind, wo aus dieser Perspektive noch Desiderate zu beklagen sind und wie diese überwunden werden können. Das bestehende Schulsystem scheint der Inklusion nicht gerecht zu werden. 126 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In den Korrespondenzen Karl Wolfskehls aus den Jahren seines neuseeländischen Exils, die er mit über den Globus verstreuten Freunden und Bekannten geführt hat, erscheint der antipodische Inselstaat als exemplarisches Exilland der Zeit, als europaferne «Ultima Thule des Südens». Im Gegensatz dazu gibt Wolfskehls Briefwechsel mit Otti und Paul Binswanger einen nicht stilisierten Einblick in das äußere wie innere Leben des gemeinsam geteilten Exils am anderen Ende der Welt, wo man freilich über 1000 km voneinander getrennt lebte: der Dichter in Auckland und der Gelehrte mit seiner künstlerisch wie schriftstellerisch begabten Frau in Christchurch auf der Südinsel. Diese Briefe sind ein bewegendes Zeugnis der Freundschaft und des wechselseitigen Zuspruchs in schwierigen Zeiten. 120 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Following on from the first volume published in 2012, this new volume significantly expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically.Chapters explore literary journalism not only in the United Kingdom, the United States and India ¿ but also in countries not covered in the first volume such as Australia, France, Brazil and Portugal, while its central themes help lead the study of literary journalism into previously unchartered territory. More focus is placed on the origins of literary journalism, with chapters exploring the previously ignored journalism of writers such as Myles na gCopaleen, Marguerite Duras, Mohatma Gandhi, Leigh Hunt, D. H. Lawrence, Mary McCarthy and Evelyn Waugh.Critical overviews of African American literary journalism in the 1950s and of literary journalism in Brazil from 1870 to the present day are also provided, and a section asks whether there is a specific women¿s voice in literary journalism.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 316 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -JungakademikerInnen unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete haben sich mit der Idee, den interdisziplinären sowie interkulturellen wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu fördern, ans Werk gemacht und setzen sich in ihren Beiträgen mit internationalen Fragen beziehungsweise regionalen Themen auseinander. Um den Dialog auch über Sprachgrenzen hinweg anzuregen, sind alle Beiträge mit je einem italienischen, deutschen und englischsprachigen Abstract versehen. Der deskriptive Anspruch dieses Sammelwerks besteht darin, verschiedene Teilaspekte des Phänomens einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft in Südtirol aufzuzeigen. Der konstruktive Anspruch dieses Werks fußt auf einem übergeordneten Ziel: dem Schaffen von Momenten der Begegnung, des intersubjektiven und interdisziplinären Dialogs und erfordert die theoretische Fundierung von praktischen Formen dialogischer Problemanalyse und -bewältigung. Con l¿idea di promuovere il dialogo interdisciplinare come anche quello scientifico interculturale neolaureati di diverse facoltà si sono dati da fare e trattano nelle loro opere questioni internazionali ossia temi regionali. Per promuovere il dialogo anche oltre le barriere linguistiche i contributi si presentano con abstract in lingua inglese, tedesca e italiana. La pretesa descrittiva di questa raccolta di temi sta nel esplicare diversi aspetti del fenomeno di una società multiculturale in Alto Adige. La pretesa costruttiva di questa opera si basa su di un fine superiore: il creare di momenti d¿incontro, di un dialogo intersoggettivo e interdisciplinare e richiede una base teorica di forme pratiche di analisi e soluzione dialogica di problemi. In an aim to promote an interdisciplinary and intercultural scientific dialog young graduates of diverse disciplines have tackled the task of intensive investigation into «cultures in dialogue» as it relates to issues of international as well as regional relevance. In an attempt to motivate dialogue across language barriers all contributions provide abstracts in the three languages: German, Italian and English. The descriptive part of the collected edition provides an overview of diverse aspects of the phenomenon of a multicultural society in South Tyrol. The constructive aspect of the volume pursues the following goal: it creates moments of encounter, of intersubjective as well as interdisciplinary dialogue and lays the basis for a theoretical foundation of practical forms of dialogic problem analysis and problem solving. 168 pp. Englisch, Deutsch, Italienisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Berufsorientierung als Aufgabe für die Schule hat sich durchgesetzt. Trotz der sich häufenden Modelle bleiben die Erwartungen, die Ausbildungsabbrüche durch die verstärkten Aktivitäten zu reduzieren, unerfüllt. Zwar stehen neben neuen und erweiterten Diagnoseverfahren die Betriebspraktika noch immer als Erfolgsfaktoren im Mittelpunkt, um Berufsentscheidungen zu individualisieren. Doch als Informationssucher stehen die Jugendlichen in den Betrieben oft vor für sie schwer zu verarbeitenden Eindrücken, die die hochindustrialisierte Welt der modernen Produktionsstätten darstellen. Hier bietet das Modell der Patenschaften die entscheidende Hilfe zur Reduktion der Komplexität: Die Schüler werden von Auszubildenden im zweiten Ausbildungsjahr (Paten) betreut, die ihnen während der Praktikumswochen auch in der Berufsschule beratend und informierend zur Seite stehen. Die Paten werden somit Experten der betriebsorientierten Berufsorientierung. 164 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Software-as-a-Service has gained momentum as a software delivery and pricing model within the software industry. Existing practices of software vendors are challenged by a potential paradigm shift. This book analyzes the implications of Software-as-a-Service on software vendors using a business model and value chain perspective. The analysis of qualitative data from software vendors highlights the role of organizational integration within software vendors. By providing insights regarding the impact of Software-as-a-Service on organizational structures and processes of software vendors, this study advances the understanding of Software-as-a-Service which is also highly relevant for practitioners who are involved in the development and operation of enterprise software solutions. 190 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Finding and understanding the right requirements is essential for every software project. This book deals with the challenge to improve requirements engineering in distributed software projects. The use of graphical user interface (GUI) prototypes can help stakeholders in such projects to elicit and specify high quality requirements. The research objective of this study is to develop a method and a software artifact to support the activities in the early requirements engineering phase in order to overcome some of the difficulties and improve the quality of the requirements, which should eventually lead to better software products. Therefore, this study seeks to support the work with these prototypes in distributed projects. It is based on a theoretical analysis and follows a design science research approach. 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Standardised tests and language certification exams have been a popular topic in the field of assessment for many years now. The washback effect of such tests, that is how and to which degree language tests influence teaching and learning, has been the focus of several research projects in various contexts with different results, but at the same time of significant importance. Investigating the impact and consequences of tests is a great step towards creating better and fairer tests. This book focuses on a research study of the washback effect of the FCE test (First Certificate in English), developed and administered by Cambridge English Language Assessment (formerly ESOL). The context of the study is Greece, where unique socioeconomic elements and characteristics have rendered language certification increasingly important and have significantly contributed to the quality and quantity of the washback effect produced. 198 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is a valuable attempt to address the issue of school effectiveness in mainland China. The author applies multi-level modeling and longitudinal student achievement and survey data to evaluate school effectiveness. In the first study, the author analyzes the effects of school resources and classroom processes on student achievement. He also investigates the size of school effects, and the differential school effects for different groups of students. The other two empirical studies focus on the value-added evaluation of academic performance in schools, including consistency, stability and robustness of value-added results. The author also discusses the policy implications of these empirical findings in the Chinese school system. 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital, and schooling in creating a dialogue about and a conversation with youth. In a society that continues to devalue, demonize, and pathologize young women and men, leading names in the academy and youth communities argue that traditional studies of youth do not consider young people themselves. Engaging with today¿s young adults in formal and informal pedagogical settings as an act of respect, social justice, and transgression creates a critical pedagogical path in which to establish a meaningful twenty-first century critical youth studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 584 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Robert Musil¿s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften is not only a towering masterpiece of German literature but also an impressively rich and razor-sharp assessment of life in the beginning of the twentieth century. Musil can be regarded as one of the most original and hard-hitting cultural critics of his time. This book explores in detail the cultural critique at work in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. Firstly, the place of morality and ideology in Musil¿s critique is explained and how his writings function as an ideology critique. Secondly, the question of Musil¿s utopianism is clarified. His utopianism is not a future or ideal place but an increased awareness of the possibilities in the present, opened up by the process of critique. Thirdly, the function of the ¿pathological¿ in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften is analyzed. Musil¿s novel was meant to be an intervention into a condition which he compared to a pathological affliction. Finally, this book takes up the difficult question of whether Musil¿s analysis and original ideas still have relevance today. 282 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Out of all the media that today¿s children encounter, what makes a particular TV character a child¿s favorite Based on 80 case studies, in-depth fan studies and standardized surveys with over 5,000 children between the ages six and twelve in Germany, this book elucidates how girls and boys use TV characters in their everyday lives and their identity work. 476 pp. Englisch.