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Publié le jeudi 08 septembre 2011 par Karim Hammou
Le séminaire « Semiosis and education », financé conjointement par la PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain) et l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise, est organisé dans le cadre des travaux d’un réseau international ayant pour objet les liens entre sémiotique et éducation. Le séminaire qui aura lieu le 3 octobre 2011 fait suite à une première rencontre, organisée en octobre 2008 à Gand, et s’appuie sur un ensemble de travaux de recherche produits depuis plusieurs années.
Le réseau et le séminaire visent à explorer :
(La langue du séminaire est l’anglais)
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The seminar “Semiosis and Education”, jointly founded by PESBG (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain) and the University of Cergy-Pontoise, is organised within the Framework of an international network focusing on semiotics and education, following an invitation seminar held at the University of Ghent in October 2008, and building on a considerable body of existing work.
The aims of the network are to explore:
October’s seminar will focus on the task of clarifying what we might mean by the semiotic, in relation first to philosophy and secondly to philosophy of education, through exegesis of and debate around the potentially seminal accounts summarised above.
Despite considerable public, professional and academic disquiet about the ubiquity of crude objectives-led, ‘delivery’ models of education (and other services), the academic response has struggled to formulate convincing alternatives. Postmodernists, while sympathetic to Jean-Francois Lyotard’s argument that an age of ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’ reduces previously value-rich pursuits such as education to ‘performativity’ (Lyotard, 1984), have failed to argue beyond a postfoundationalist or anti-foundationalist position, although some have attempted to show how this can of itself have educational merit (e.g. Blake, Smeyers, Smith and Standish, 1998). Paradoxically, there are senses in which no thinking can lack foundations; indeed, Lyotard’s own argument that the grands recits of modernity were being replaced by the petit recits of postmodernity could be said to offer recits, or the fall of metanarratives, a sort of foundational status. Speakers have been at the forefront of pursuing and developing the argument that the various expressions of a semiotic and/or rhetorical, hermeneutic or narrative turn in education and other areas of social thinking provides the grounds for rethinking educational theory, policy and practice at a number of levels. The relationship between the concepts ‘semiosis’, ‘rhetoric’, ‘hermeneutics’ and ‘narrative’ is a complex one that the applicants have been engaged in clarifying, though there is general acceptance that ‘semiotic(s)/ semiosis’ is potentially the broadest term, if only insofar as it is used to explain phenomena beyond those of human communication: for example, as biosemiotics, zoosemiotics, ecosemiotics and pansemiotics (Maran, 2006). Suffice to state here that, notwithstanding potentially considerable philosophical differences (for example, in the emphasis placed on theorists of language, such as Saussure, in developing semiotics, as opposed to non-linguistic philosophers such as Peirce), the consequences of regarding any of these terms as fundamental to education will often be congruent, and discussion of their relative values can of itself be highly productive. While there are theorists and philosophers who have explored the possibilities of narrative, rhetorical, hermeneutic and semiotically based approaches to, inter alia, history (Ricoeur, 1986), social life in general (Burke, e.g. 1941; Gadamer, 1975) and even ecology (Kull, 2000, on Von Uexküll; Maran, 2006), speakers collectively are among a very small number to date exploring the implications for education, at the levels of theory and practice.
This seminar intends to narrow the terms of this debate by focusing explicitly on philosophical interest in the semiotic and the implications of this interest for educational theory at a number of levels.
Contact : Prof. Andrew Stables, Department of Education – University of Bath - A.W.G.Stables@bath.ac.uk
The program of the seminar will be soon online:
http://www.n.u-cergy.fr/spip.php?rubrique2593
(Journée ouverte au public – entrée gratuite)
14h00 – Andrew Stables (U. of Bath, UK) : Peirce, Saussure and the Limits of Semiosis
14h30 – Winfried Nöth (U. of Kassel, Germany/U. of Sao Paulo, Brasil): Signs as educators: Peircean insights
15h00 – Torill Strand (U. of Oslo, Norway) – Peirce’s speculative rhetoric and education
15h30 – Discussion
16h15 – Inna Semetsky (U. of Newcastle, Australia): At the interface of theory and practice: exploring Edusemiotics
16h45 – Eetu Pikkarainen (U. of Helsinki, Finland) - The semiotics of Education
« La sémiotique comme philosophie de l'éducation », Séminaire, Calenda, publié le jeudi 08 septembre 2011, http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle20341.html