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Schools and Schooling as Semiotic Engagement

A Focus on Design

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Pedagogy and Edusemiotics

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

Abstract

In this chapter, empirical data from the AHRC funded Design Matters? research project are subjected to semiotic analysis according to a framework drawn from biosemiotics, Tarasti’s existential semiotics and Stables’ taxonomy of environmental literacies as functional, cultural and critical.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Roehampton, UK

    Andrew Stables

  2. University of Oxford, UK

    Susannah Learoyd-Smith

  3. University of Oxford, UK

    Harry Daniels

  4. University of Oxford, UK

    Hau Ming Tse

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  1. Andrew Stables
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  2. Susannah Learoyd-Smith
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Waikato, New Zealand, RosNOU, Moscow, Russia

    Inna Semetsky

  2. University of Roehampton, UK

    Andrew Stables

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Stables, A., Learoyd-Smith, S., Daniels, H., Tse, H.M. (2014). Schools and Schooling as Semiotic Engagement. 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_5

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