Books in the Peter Lang Primer series

Explores the arts-based research paradigm and its potential to intersect with and augment traditional social science and educational research methods. This title highlights the utility of arts-based research concepts toward building innovative curriculum-making strategies for educational practice both within and beyond the classroom setting.

Serves as an introduction to the life and work of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. This book examines Vygotsky's emphasis on the role of cultural and historical context in learning, while challenging theories that emphasize a universalistic view of learning through fixed, biologically determined stages of development.

History of American Higher Education documents the fascinating evolution of American colleges and universities, touching on the historical events that shaped them, from the colonial era through the early twenty-first century.

Charter School Primer

This text is rooted in inquiry with aspiring elementary teachers through a university social studies course in New York City, where East Harlem first-graders engage peace curriculum, and in the South Bronx, where fourth-graders attempt to understand and respond to neighborhood violence.

Using their U.S. and international experience, the authors discuss civic youth work touchstones, promising practices, and activities. A substantive bibliography lists the sources on the subject of civic youth work and provides links to scholarly work for researchers and practitioners to effectively support youth involvement in community, social, and political development.

Uncovering Black Heroes is a series of essays regarding real people who are not so well-known in the mainstream of American freedom and civil rights discussion.

Transformative Leadership: A Primer both delivers a complete and engaging overview of transformative leadership and also clearly distinguishes it from other popular approaches to leadership.