Can design inquiry advance edusemiotics? Rethinking factual information and imaginative interpretation

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (212) ◽  
pp. 219-238
Author(s):  
Farouk Y. Seif
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The Core ◽  
Theoretical Investigations ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

AbstractWhile edusemiotics emerges as a fresh field of inquiry in the core of semiotic enterprise, the relationship between factual information and imaginative interpretation remains problematic and dualistic. This article proposes a theoretical framework that utilizes design inquiry for advancing edusemiotics. In a Transmodern world, human beings are able to cross over diaphanous boundaries among the real, the true, and the imaginary, transforming what has been in existence by making new representations of that which is yet-to-come. Augmenting edusemiotics with design thinking transcends our assumptions about the ephemeral phenomena of reality and reveals the hidden connection between factual information and imaginative interpretation. Introducing design inquiry into edusemiotics not only encourages scholars to bridge the gap between theoretical investigations and practical applications but, more significantly, also turns their attention to the development of their capacity to becoming andragogical agents of change.

Transdisciplinarity of Edusemiotics

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farouk Y. Seif
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Theoretical Investigations ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

AbstractEdusemiotics emerges as a fresh field of inquiry that benefits from the mutual reciprocities between design thinking and semiotic interpretation. By revealing these mutual reciprocities, edusemiotics emerges as one of the most important developments in educational philosophy, bridging the gap between the humanities and sciences that was fashioned by modernity and postmodernity. In a transmodern world, we are free and able to cross over diaphanous boundaries among diverse disciplines and transcend our assumptions about the ephemeral phenomena of reality. The transdisciplinarity of edusemiotics encourages us to integrate theoretical investigations and practical applications in both humanities and sciences, and turns our attention to the development of our capacity to integrate factual information and imaginative interpretation. Therefore, we truly become educators of adult learners.

scholarly journals ‘Learning to Be More Human’: Perspectives of Respect Within Prison Education in an Irish Young Offenders institution

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel O'Grady
Keyword(s):  
Prison Education ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Young Offenders ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
Primary Function ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Respect is fundamental aspect of how human beings relate to each other and, arguably, is a significant factor in the relationship between student and teacher. For incarcerated adults, the relationships they foster with their teachers (and by extension the respect or disrespect cultivated within it) often has a considerable impact on their educative development. This research explores how respect, and disrespect, is perceived to be communicated within prison education by 13 prisoners and 13 teachers in an Irish Young Offenders institution. The values at the core of prison educators’ practice and their capacity to promote self-respect within their students emerged as central to this cultivation of respect. The place of socialisation within these educative relationships also emerged as a prominent factor and is discussed in relation to MacMurray’s (2012) assertion that the primary function of education is ‘learning to be human’

scholarly journals “Everywhere you go always take the weather with you”: Phenomenology and the pedagogy of climate change education

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Howard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human History ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Living World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Imminent Threat ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Regional Programs

In no other time in human history has the relationship between human beings, and the biosphere on which we depend, been fraught with such a sense of urgency. Responding to the imminent threat of climate change has focussed our attention on education. There has been a proliferation of international, national and regional programs designed to change attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs associated with the causes of climate change. This paper will look to phenomenology and pedagogy to attempt describe the experience of climate and to help us consider how we may allow the young to live in a time of inevitable climate disruption while  nurturing what seems to come to them naturally, an embodied integration into the wonder and awe of the places they live.  Also, this paper explores two dominant approaches to climate change education and asks how these approaches articulate an understanding of the essential relationship between humans and the larger living world as reflected through changing climatic conditions. 

scholarly journals Ecological Transformation and Man-Machine Symbiosis: A Study on the Relationship between Human and Artificial Intelligence

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Zheng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Human Ecology ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Relationship

The theory of “ecological symbiosis” discovered by Margulis and Raulock updates the relationship between humans and nature to “the symbiotic relationship between man and ecology as a whole”. Human activities transform human ecology from the aspects of life evolution and cultural evolution. Artificial intelligence, as the core of human ecology, has a symbiotic relationship with human beings, and has the independence of human ecology. The possibility of life becomes a symbiotic species with humans.

scholarly journals Ecological Transformation and Man-Machine Symbiosis: A Study on the Relationship between Human and Artificial Intelligence

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Zheng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Human Ecology ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Relationship

The theory of “ecological symbiosis” discovered by Margulis and Raulock updates the relationship between humans and nature to “the symbiotic relationship between man and ecology as a whole”. Human activities transform human ecology from the aspects of life evolution and cultural evolution. Artificial intelligence, as the core of human ecology, has a symbiotic relationship with human beings, and has the independence of human ecology. The possibility of life becomes a symbiotic species with humans.

scholarly journals A Secular Interpretation of God in Christianity under Holographic Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. p129
Author(s):  
Yu Fu ◽  
Xi Kang
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
The Core ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

God is the core of Christian religion, where the whole Christian faith and creed rest upon. While the relationship between the mortal and God is the fundamental question that makes Christianity distinguish from other religions. This paper aims to discover the secular meaning of God, such as in China, with the perspective of relationship between God and mortal and the theory of holographic theory, which brings atheists a better comprehension of human beings and the universe through a religious philosophy.

scholarly journals Understanding Mind through Indian Psychology

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sreeja Gangadharan P ◽  
S P K Jena
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Indian Psychology ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemological Dualism ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Mind is a subject widely studied under various discipline, yet, failed to come up with a definition which we could comprehend. These studies had unravelled a number of questions regarding the nature of the mind and leads to serious debates on its composition, i.e., whether it consists only of higher intellectual functions such as memory and reasoning, its activities i.e.; what is the relationship of mind and body, is dualism or monism?, is it accessible to study or only an endeavour of first person and finally, who possess a mind?; do all beings have a mind or only human beings could possess it?, and so on. With two simple models, ‘the Epistemological dualism’ and the model of ‘Mind-Spirit; dichotomy Vs coexistence’ based on the concepts in Indian Psychology, the paper throws more light in to the subject mind and its faculty.

Designing a business unit and creating the first ever responsive kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo FESTA ◽  
Tommaso CORA ◽  
Lucilla FAZIO
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Business Unit ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Relationship

Is it possible to transform stone into a technological and innovative device? The meeting with one of the main stone transformers in Europe produced the intention of a disruptive operation that could affect the strategy of the whole company. A contagious singularity. By intertwining LEAN methodologies and the human-centric approach of design thinking, we mapped the value creation in the company activating a dialogue with the workers and the management, listening to people, asking for ambitions, discovering problems and the potential of production. This qualitative and quantitative analysis conducted with a multidisciplinary approach by designers, architects and marketing strategists allowed us to define a new method. We used it to design a platform that could let all the players express their potential to the maximum. This is how the group's research laboratory was born, with the aim of promoting the relationship between humans and stone through product innovation. With this goal, we coordinated the new team, developing technologies that would allow creating a more direct relationship between man and surface, making the stone reactive. The result was the first responsive kitchen ever.

Adaptations of Time Travel Narratives in Japanese Multimedia: Nurturing Eudaimonia across Time and Space

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Ae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
The Future ◽  
Live Action

To displace a character in time is to depict a character who becomes acutely conscious of his or her status as other, as she or he strives to comprehend and interact with a culture whose mentality is both familiar and different in obvious and subtle ways. Two main types of time travel pose a philosophical distinction between visiting the past with knowledge of the future and trying to inhabit the future with past cultural knowledge, but in either case the unpredictable impact a time traveller may have on another society is always a prominent theme. At the core of Japanese time travel narratives is a contrast between self-interested and eudaimonic life styles as these are reflected by the time traveller's activities. Eudaimonia is a ‘flourishing life’, a life focused on what is valuable for human beings and the grounding of that value in altruistic concern for others. In a study of multimodal narratives belonging to two sets – adaptations of Tsutsui Yasutaka's young adult novella The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Yamazaki Mari's manga series Thermae Romae – this article examines how time travel narratives in anime and live action film affirm that eudaimonic living is always a core value to be nurtured.

Jalan Kesempurnaan Menurut Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil di Cijati Desa Cikareo Selatan Sumedang

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Syarifudin Syarifudin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Each religious sect has its own characteristics, whether fundamental, radical, or religious. One of them is Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, which is in Cijati, South Cikareo Village, Wado District, Sumedang Regency. This congregation is Sufism with the concept of self-purification as the subject of its teachings. So, the purpose of this study is to reveal how the origin of Insan Al-Kamil Congregation, the concept of its purification, and the procedures of achieving its purification. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method with a normative theological approach as the blade of analysis. In addition, the data generated is the result of observation, interviews, and document studies. From the collected data, Jamaah Insan Al-Kamil adheres to the core teachings of Islam and is the tenth regeneration of Islam Teachings, which refers to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. According to this congregation, self-perfection becomes an obligation that must be achieved by human beings in order to remember Allah when life is done. The process of self-purification is done when human beings still live in the world by knowing His God. Therefore, the peak of self-purification is called Insan Kamil. 

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