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Learning Existential Lessons

The Edusemiotics of Images

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Pedagogy and Edusemiotics

Part of the book series: Educational Futures ((EDUFUT,volume 62))

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This chapter presents education in its broader informal or cultural aspect in terms of learning existential lessons in life, in experience. John Dewey considered all education to be necessarily moral.

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Semetsky, I. (2014). Learning Existential Lessons. In: Semetsky, I., Stables, A. (eds) Pedagogy and Edusemiotics. Educational Futures Rethinking Theory and Practice , vol 62. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-857-2_11

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