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Download full textAirey, John; Eriksson, Urban – Designs for Learning, 2019
In this paper we are interested in the relationship between disciplinary knowledge and its representation. We carry out a social semiotic analysis of a central tool used in astronomy--the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram--in order to highlight its disciplinary and pedagogical affordances. The H-R diagram that we know today combines many layers of…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Visual Aids, Semiotics, Affordances
