This collected volume celebrates the life and work of the late Andrew Stables, a renowned scholar in semiotics and in educational philosophy and theory. He is known, in particular, for having pioneered the semiotic approach to education. This book celebrates his work with scholarly contributions by leading researchers in these areas of scholarship, reflecting on Andrew Stables’ thought and intellectual legacy. The contributions are interdisciplinary, which reflects Stables’ eclectic work. Also included are new and unpublished texts of Andrew Stables. The text is divided into three parts: Philosophy of Education, Learning as Semiotic, and Environmental Literacies. It appeals to students and researchers working in philosophy of education broadly, semiotic-oriented approaches to education, as well as discussions on multimodality.
Part I: Introduction.
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1. Editors Introduction: Semiotic
engagements - Alin Olteanu, Sébastien Pesce, Eetu Pikkarainen, Siân Stables.-
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2. From Believing in to Believing by: A Beginners Guide to
Edusemiotics: Andrew Stables inaugural lecture at Roehampton University 2014
- Andrew Stables.- Part II: Philosophy of education.
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3. Provocations
for Andrew Stables: texts, words, semiotics - Suzy Harris & Paul Standish.-
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4. Pedagogy Revitalized and Enacted as Lived Experience: Andrew
Stables valuable contribution to educational philosophy - Marianna
Papastephanou.
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5. Living and learning as rhetorical engagement -
Kris Rutten.
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6. Drawing on the Expendable Surface of Inscription:
Artistic Practices and the Implications for Teaching and Learning - Derek
Pigrum.- Part III: Semiotics and learning.
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7. How minimal should a
minimal ontological realism be? On pedagogical ontology - Eetu Pikkarainen.-
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8. Andrew Stables, before and towards edusemiotics: Some aspects of
an involved philosophy - Sébastien Pesce.
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9. Andrew Stables on
Peirces rationalism, fully semiotic philosophy, and last words in semiotics
- Winfried Nöth.- Part IV: Environmental matters and literacy.
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10.
Semiotic Engagement in the Multispecies World - Timo Maran.
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11.
Response-ability & post-growth education, in need of limits - Cary
Campbell.
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12. The relevance of Andrew Stables interpretative notion
of learning - Alin Olteanu.- Part V: The future direction of Andrew Stables'
work.
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13. Minimal Ontological Realism as Pragmatist Foundation, and
the Ethics of Responsibility - Andrew Stables.
Dr. Alin Olteanu was Andrew Stables' PhD student. They have collaborated beyond just that degree, producing several publications together. Sébastien Pesce and Eetu Pikkarainen are leading scholars in the semiotics of education. They are co-founders of the International Semiotics and Education Network, from where a semiotic approach to education was first institutionalized.
