Sem-analysing events: towards a cultural pedagogy of hope

Title: Sem-analysing events: towards a cultural pedagogy of hope
Creator: Semetsky, Inna
Relation: Studies in Philosophy and Education Vol. 26, Issue 3, p. 253-265
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11217-007-9030-x
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2007
Description: This paper locates the concept of learning among real-life human experiences and events. Functioning as a sign, a meaningful event can be understood in terms of a cultural extra-linguistic “text.” Reading and interpreting diverse cultural “texts” are equivalent to constructing and learning critical symbolic lessons embedded in a continuous process of our experiential, both intellectual and ethical, growth. The paper employs Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abjection and her method of semanalysis as a synthesis of philosophy, psychoanalysis and semiotics. Extending semiotic analysis to the level of informal education, the paper asserts that real-life events, such as the destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11, can become a means towards constructing the cultural pedagogy of hope paramount to sustaining a global society.
Subject: abjection; culture; ethics; interpretation; shadow; symbol; text; Tower of Babel
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34734
Identifier: uon:3669
Identifier: ISSN:1573-191X
Language: eng
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