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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City- Foreword...
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19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City, the definitive overview of urban education, is provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education, Steinberg, Kincheloe, and the authors ask direct questions about what urban teachers need to know. Their answers are guaran..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
20 Questions about Youth and the Media
$15.13
20 Questions is a comprehensive guide to todays most pressing issues in the study of children, tweens, and teens and the media. Sharon R. Mazzarella brings together leading experts to address a range of topics from government regulation and the effects of violent entertainment to the commercializati..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
A New Literacies Sampler (New Literacies and Digit...
$30.13
The study of new literacies is quickly emerging as a major research field. This book «samples» work in the broad area of new literacies research along two dimensions. First, it samples some typical examples of new literacies - video gaming, fan fiction writing, weblogging, role play gaming, using we..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World (New...
$14.30
By embracing a rapidly changing digital world, the so-called millennial adolescent is proving quite adept at breaking down age-old distinctions among disciplines, between high- and low-brow media culture, and within print and digitized text types. Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World explor..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Alternative Schooling for African American Youth: ...
$32.15
This book is about the experiences of a group of middle school students and the administration, faculty and staff responsible for meeting their educational needs. These students have been removed from the traditional public school environment and placed in an alternative school program in lieu of ex..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Applied Law in the Behavioral Health Professions: ...
$11.13
Making effective decisions in the behavioral health professions requires an understanding of essential legal principles governing practice. The technical manner in which these principles are often presented in law treatises makes it difficult for the decision maker to prioritize and apply them in a ..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Art, Culture, & Education: Artful Teaching in a Fr...
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Product DescriptionWhile the authors of this book were team teaching a course called «High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste», the «Sensation» controversy at the Brooklyn Museum broke out. This controversy not only shaped their course, but had larger implications for art, culture, and education in gen..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Bad Girls: Cultural Politics and Media Representat...
$9.92
Bad Girls examines representational practices of film and television stories beginning with post-Vietnam cinema and ending with postfeminisms and contemporary public disputes over women in the military. The book explores a diverse range of popular media texts, from the Alien saga to Ally McBeal and ..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Becoming a Critical Educator: Defining a Classroom...
$10.83
Many American educators are all too familiar with disengaged students, disenfranchised teachers, sanitized and irrelevant curricula, inadequate support for the neediest schools and students, and the tyranny of standardizing testing. This text invites teachers and would-be teachers unhappy with such ..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Changing Images of Law in Film and Television Crim...
$12.27
One of the most important legal developments in the last half of the twentieth century was the change from criminal justice policies shaped primarily by liberal ideas to those shaped primarily by conservative ideas. This book examines images of law in Hollywood films and television crime dramas to b..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Classroom Teaching: An Introduction
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Product DescriptionClassroom Teaching: An Introduction provides both prospective and practicing educators with a provocative examination of some of the most practical concerns of teaching. Topics include classroom management, effective and creative teaching methods, classroom violence, motivation, l..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Communication in Political Campaigns (Frontiers in...
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Product Description This book offers a comprehensive guide to political campaign communication using functional theory as a framework. An authoritative account packed with real life examples from campaigns across the globe, the book examines all of the important variables in political campaign commu..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Critical Issues in Anti-Racist Research Methodolog...
$50.23
Anti-racism studies have blossomed over the years with scholarship and political work reinforcing each other to cement anti-racist change. But how do we understand anti-racist research How is anti-racist research methodology different from other methods of research investigation What are the princ..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now? (Counterpoint...
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Our educational system is in turmoil. Many would argue that it has been assaulted and oversimplified by the right. There is growing concern that we are becoming a liberal nation-state with an increasingly anti-liberal population and an electorate that is disinterested in politics. In this globalized..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Curriculum Books: The First Hundred Years (Counter...
$50.81
A substantial revision of Curriculum Books: The First Eighty Years, this new volume is a comprehensive presentation of curriculum books that have contributed to theoretical and practical discourse about curriculum throughout the twentieth century. Following an introduction that explains the book’s p..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture (Digi...
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Product DescriptionSince the mass proliferation of the Internet, music has been the one art form that has seen the most attention online. This volume culls together essays that examine the cultural aspects of music existing online. More than just the notion that «people download,» Cybersounds is the..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Deconstructing Early Childhood Education: Social J...
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From a critical perspective, some early childhood educators have proposed that the knowledge base used to ground the field actually serves to support the status quo, reinforces prejudices and stereotypes, and ignores the real lives of children. The purpose of this book is to deconstruct early childh..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanza...
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Desire and Decline explores the privileged place of education in local, national, and global development discourses about population, HIV/AIDS, and environmental conservation. «Desire» signals the global consensus on the view that education is central to solving problems of development. «Decline», o..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Developing Leaders for Urban Ministries: Second Pr...
$20.14
Designing curricula to train Christian leaders for ministries in urban areas requires careful attention to the context, the kinds of ministries to be done and the people who are to be developed. This book treats the issue of contextualizing leadership development, drawing upon literature about urban..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion ...
$21.91
Winner! CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.For more than twenty years Frank Eugene Beaver’s Dictionary of Film Terms has been a standard reference for the study of films and filmmaking. This updated, expanded edition includes descriptions of the latest developments in such areas as animation, special..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Compute...
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Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon. The book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for artificial..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Enola Gay and the Court of History (Frontiers in P...
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In this hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, and crisply argued book, award-winning historian Robert P. Newman offers a fresh perspective on the dispute over President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in World War II. Newman’s argument centers on the controversy that erupted around..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Equal Protection of the Law?: Gender and Justice i...
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Product DescriptionThis book, grounded in American women’s history, explores the ongoing process of taking gender into account in the U.S. justice system. Women came late to the making, applying, and enforcing of the law. How has the creation of the law by and for men affected women How has increas..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionaliz...
$36.39
Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics - an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic gr..
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Exploring Communication Ethics: Interviews with In...
$25.87
Innovative in its approach and content, Exploring Communication Ethics: Interviews with Influential Scholars in the Field enlivens the study of human communication ethics by presenting interviews conducted with nine communication ethics scholars along with an advanced literature review. The intervie..