Philosophical, Semiotic and Environmental Questions for Education

Dr. Alin Olteanu was Andrew Stables' PhD student. They have collaborated beyond just that degree, producing several publications together. Sébastien Pesce and Eetu Pikkarainen are leading scholars in the semiotics of education. They are co-founders of the International Semiotics and Education Network, from where a semiotic approach to education was first institutionalized.

• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Editors’ Introduction: Semiotic engagements - Alin Olteanu, Sébastien Pesce, Eetu Pikkarainen, Siân Stables.- Chapter 2. From Believing in to Believing by: A Beginner’s Guide to Edusemiotics: Andrew Stables’ inaugural lecture at Roehampton University 2014 - Andrew Stables.- Part II: Philosophy of education.- Chapter 3. Provocations for Andrew Stables: texts, words, semiotics - Suzy Harris & Paul Standish.- Chapter 4. Pedagogy Revitalized and Enacted as Lived Experience: Andrew Stables’ valuable contribution to educational philosophy - Marianna Papastephanou.- Chapter 5. Living and learning as rhetorical engagement - Kris Rutten.- Chapter 6. Drawing on the Expendable Surface of Inscription: Artistic Practices and the Implications for Teaching and Learning - Derek Pigrum.- Part III: Semiotics and learning.- Chapter 7. How minimal should a minimal ontological realism be? On pedagogical ontology - Eetu Pikkarainen.- Chapter 8.  Andrew Stables, before and towards edusemiotics: Some aspects of an “involved philosophy” - Sébastien Pesce.- Chapter 9. Andrew Stables on Peirce’s rationalism, fully semiotic philosophy, and last words in semiotics - Winfried Nöth.- Part IV: Environmental matters and literacy.- Chapter 10. Semiotic Engagement in the Multispecies World - Timo Maran.- Chapter 11. Response-ability & post-growth – education, in need of limits - Cary Campbell.- Chapter 12. The relevance of Andrew Stables’ interpretative notion of learning - Alin Olteanu.- Part V: The future direction of Andrew Stables' work.- Chapter 13. Minimal Ontological Realism as Pragmatist Foundation, and the Ethics of Responsibility - Andrew Stables.