Submits references from a journal kept to accompany a new research project. Sheds light on the delicate relationship between life story and narrative reference. (Author/VWL)

Presents an overview of international perspectives on referencing in educational research, reflects on a number of constants relating to the game of references that could contribute to improving research practices and education, and contemplates the semiotic aspects of referencing in education by opening a discussion on the nature of academic joy.…

Spaces of meaning are stratified to establish congruence among those belonging to the same semiotic "beams." Individuals may be geographically close yet unable to cooperate because they are not attuned to the same semiotic territory. Families of signs characterize each semiotic territory in which inhabitants are linked conceptually. Symbols and…

Shares reflections on the use of video in sport pedagogy research. (Author/VWL)

Surveys the role of video feedback in light of a new, integrated concept in teacher education called education research. Shows how shared reflection was stimulated during language teacher education to link theory with practice. Situations were created that allowed for reflective practice on the semiosis of action. (Author/VWL)

Uses data on the oral communication of elementary school learning groups (459 Canadian students in 63 learning groups) to show how experience transcends subject-matter planning, and the paradoxical nature of planning for authentic experiences in education. Presents a framework for semiotic research into disciplinary didactics as a prototype…

Disciplinary didactics describes and designs the actualized/virtual learning and teaching relationships among disciplinary content, learner(s), and teacher. This article adopts a semiotic perspective to outline eight shared features of the various disciplinary didactics. The goal is to situate them within an integrated vision that helps shape a…

The goal of this paper is to show how experience transcends subject-matter planning. Indeed, there is a paradox in planning authentic experiences; hence the word "quasi-authentic" in the title. Subject matters are defined here as disciplinary genres. They are integrated into a new framework for semiotic research into disciplinary…