Edusemiotics – A Handbook

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Semetsky, Inna (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Educational Psychology.

Edusemiotics is a pioneering area of study that connects semiotics – the science of signs – with educational theory and the philosophy of education. This volume reflects cutting-edge research by scholars in education and in semiotics worldwide, bridging the two discourses to present the state of the...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: A primer on edusemiotics
• 2 Academic culture and the science of signs
• 3 'Diagrammatic Teaching': The role of iconic signs in meaningful pedagogy
• 4 Semiotics in Mathematics Education: Topological foundations and diagrammatic methods
• 5 Metaphors, Models, and Diagrams in Educational Theories and Practices
• 6 Education and Reasoning: Advancing a Peircean edusemiotic
• 7 No surprise in the 'Surprise Effect' of Values Pedagogy: An edusemiotic analysis
• 8 Semiotics and meaning in the aims of education in Greece
• 9 Edusemiotics, Existential Semiotics and Existential Pedagogy
• 10 The Embodied mind: Education as the transformation of habits
• 11 Academic Pathologies and Anxieties of Knowing
• 12 Interpreting ourselves
• 13 The Role of the Reader: Remembering the possible worlds of Umberto Eco
• 14 Reading History: Education, semiotics and edusemiotics
• 15 Heteroglossia as a dialogic route to metaphoricity in education
• 16 Knowledge as a sign: An edusemiotic theory of learning heritage language.