Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory

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Ethics and Significance: Insights from Welby for Meaningful Education

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_30-1
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Synonyms

Child development; Edusemiotics; Ethics; Experience; Language; Meaning; Practice; Semioethics; Semiotics; Significance; Significs; Translation; Values

Introduction

This entry focuses on Victoria Lady Welby’s (1837–1912) theory of meaning – which she denominated significs – and addresses her contribution to education as, specifically, the problematic of educating for values. To bring Welby’s legacy into edusemiotics is timely, especially considering that her work does not yet enjoy the notoriety it deserves. Yet her conceptualizations demonstrate the connection of her unorthodox theory of meaning to the philosophy of education today – a key concern in both edusemiotics (Stables and Semetsky 2015) and semioethics (Petrilli and Ponzio 2010), whence ethics is informed by signs, their interpretation, and translation in the context of practical life and human actions. Such new direction explored on the basis of Welby’s significs as a theory of meaning focuses on the relation...

Keywords

Early Childhood Education Significal Education Abductive Inference Practical Life Semiotic Mediation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.University of Bari Aldo MoroBariItaly