Everything interesting in life belongs to the field of semiotics. Applied semiotics is the study of meaning making processes: it is practice-oriented. It aims to make operational a discourse applying semiotic tools - as in the case of education. Applied semiotics can also be understood as a method of analysis using semiotic tools. The semiotician is, above all else, a people-watcher, an observer of how people gesticulate, of how they communicate, of how they behave typically in certain situations. Semioticians refer to the ways in which individuals devise their messages as texts. A text is, literally, a weaving together of the elements taken from a specific code in order to communicate something (Danesi). Visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SemioticsInEducation
Rachel J. Pinnow: Chair
Assistant Professor University of Missouri College of Education Learning, Teaching & Curriculum 303 Townsend Hall Columbia, MO 65211 [email protected] 573-882-8465 Divisions: Social Context of Education SIGs: Semiotics in Education; Language & Social Processes
Associate Professor Ramapo College Mahwah, NJ 07430 [email protected] 201-684-7633 Divisions: Teaching and Teacher Education SIGs: Semiotics in Education
Elisabeth Johnson: Secretary/Treasurer
Assistant Professor City University of New York, College of Staten Island Literacy and English Education 2800 Victory Boulevard Staten Island, NY 10314 [email protected] 718-982-3727 Divisions: Social Contexts, Curriculum Studies SIGs: Semiotics in Education, Writing and Literacies, Qualitative Research
Associate Professor of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education Indiana University --Bloomington Bloomington, IN 47405 [email protected] 812-856-8275 Divisions: Social Context of Education SIGs: Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education; Early Education and Child Development; Language and Social Processes; Semiotics in Education; Writing and Literacies