Books reviewed by Rhys Stevens, Martin Chandler, and Julie Jones

Julie-ann Edwards and Keith Jones

Co-learning agreements between researchers and practitioners have been suggested as a way of generating research findings that are useful to improving schools and informing classroom practice. In this chapter we describe how a co-learning agreement was developed as a basis for researching aspects of the learning of mathematics in the classroom of a teacher whose pedagogy emphasised collaborativ...

By Julie Smith

The software industry and IT departments are facing extreme pressures to provide new applications that add value in today’s competitive environment. Whereas in the 1990s companies concentrated on implementing systems that reautomated functions to provide specific benefits, such as Y2K processing, today’s market demands new applications, and better integration within and between organizations. T...

BRIEF COMMUNICATION A Label for Peer-Reviewed Books

The Publishers Association of Flanders, Belgium, has created a label for peer-reviewed books: the Guaranteed Peer Reviewed Content (GPRC) label (www.gprc.be/en). We introduce the label and the logic behind it. A label for peer-reviewed books encourages transparency in academic book publishing. It is especially relevant for the social sciences and humanities and in the context of performance-bas...

Semiotics by Daniel Chandler Adapted

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What counts as evidence in linguistics? In our discipline this is a perennial issue, a question to which different schools and generations of linguists have given varying responses. Inductive procedures, the analysis of language samples known as corpora, have been one strong option since Bloomfield's structuralism and have gained increasing momentum in recent years. Technological advances have ...