- 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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