This book represents an essential resource exploring semiotics for education: Edusemiotics. It opens new pathways of engaging with signs inside/outside schools and across theory, practice, poetry, art, technology and politics.
Peter Pericles Trifonas, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. Author of Reading Culture and Deconstructing the Machine (with Jacques Derrida)
This trenchant collection of essays successfully integrates the scientific rigors of semiotics with a sophisticated application of creative arts in the context of both formal and informal pedagogy. The groundbreaking research in this volume represents a long- overdue inquiry into multiple relations and cross-currents in education worldwide and as informed by such luminaries as Peirce, Bahktin, Greimas, Kristeva, Havel, and other thinkers. A must to read!
Thomas E. Peterson, University of Georgia (USA). Author of The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature and numerous essays in Educational Philosophy and Theory
The book comprises a series of ingenious semiotic approaches to educational theory, practice and research. It represents a synthesis of analytic reason with poetics and images to enrich the meaning of education.
John Deely, Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas (Houston, USA). Author of Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
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Acknowledgements; Preamble; Two Poems; Signs as Educators: Peircean Insights; Poetry Meets Pedagogy: Conversations in/about Classrooms; Schools and Schooling as Semiotic Engagement: A Focus on Design; Interpreting Metaphoric Acts: A Dialogic Encounter with the Very Young; On the Implementation of Technology in Education; Two Poems; Education, Values and Authority: A Semiotic View; The Pedagogy and Politics of Governing Childhoods Through Images; Learning Existential Lessons: The Edusemiotics of Images; ’Skirts: Thinking Thoughts and Unthoughts; Two Poems; Edusemiotics of Educational Gestures; Images of Research and Scholarship in a University Promotional Brochure in the Era of Marketization and Audit Culture; Postscript; Contributors.