Ghent seminar programme

SEMIOSIS AS A FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPT FOR EDUCATION

An international invitation seminar, Room 120.047, University of Ghent Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,
Henri Dunantlaan 2, Ghent, Belgium, 16-17 October 2008

Thursday 16^th. October

12.30 Lunch

13.15 Welcome and introduction: Ronald Soetaert (Ghent)

13.30-15.00 Session 1

Andrew Stables (Bath/ Ghent): Notes Towards a Fully Semiotic Theory of Education

Torill Strand (Oslo): Conceptualizing Educational Processes: The Role of Peirce's later Semeiotic

15.00 Coffee

15.30-17.45 Session 2

Eetu Pikkarainen (Oulu): Being, Action and Meaning: About Semiosis in Education

Sebastien Pesce (Paris): A Semiotic Perspective on Institutional Pedagogy

Timo Maran (Tartu): Introduction to ecosemiotics, the study of environmental semiosis

19.30 Evening meal (venue to be confirmed)

Friday 17^th. October

09.30 Coffee

10.00-11.30 Session 3

Andre Mottart, Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert (Ghent): Living and Learning as Rhetorical-Narrative Engagement (three shorter and related contributions)

11.30 Coffee, followed by closing remarks and discussion

12.30 Close

Notes: The language of the seminar will be English. Individual presenters are asked to speak for 20-30 minutes. There will be 15-25 minutes of discussion following each paper.