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Lytras, Miltiadis, Ed.; Naeve, Ambjorn, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2005
In the context of Knowledge Society, the convergence of knowledge and learning management is a critical milestone. "Intelligent Learning Infrastructure for Knowledge Intensive Organizations: A Semantic Web Perspective" provides state-of-the art knowledge through a balanced theoretical and technological discussion. The semantic web perspective…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Knowledge Management, Management Systems, Semantics
Sabena, Cristina – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
The paper reports on a case study from a teaching experiment on the construction of meaning of integral at secondary school level, starting from the cognitive root of area. In the considered activity, students are faced with some graphs of functions and are asked to work in group to trace the corresponding integral functions. The analysis…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Spielmann, Guy; Radnofsky, Mary L. – 1997
There is ample evidence that the success or failure of school reform lies not only in the soundness and appropriateness of the reform model chosen, but primarily in its perception, acceptance, and endorsement by teachers. This essay expresses the concept of power as it applies to school reform that focuses on teacher empowerment and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Policy Formation, Power Structure
McWhinnie, Louise – 1999
This paper is the work of an international student studying within the School of Art Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia), who has undertaken doctoral research on the teaching and learning experiences of international Asian graphic design students within the setting of an overseas university. It identifies the nature…
Descriptors: Art Education, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context, Design
Borgoman, Laure – Francais dans le Monde, 1982
Graffiti analysis is an important means of understanding social and cultural realities at a given moment of a community's existence, realities that the media often treat only in generalizations. Comparisons of graffiti between places, periods, languages, and subjects may be revealing. (MSE)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Language Patterns, Language Research
Cassidy, Michael F. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1982
Advances a theoretical perspective for analyzing education and instructional technology as disciplines using the science of semiotics as a framework for identifying the components, relationships among components, and meanings of components in educational systems. A 30-item reference list accompanies the text. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Educational Theories, Instructional Systems
Tourangeau, Raymond – Meta, 1980
Defines the concepts underlying the semiotics of written texts and emphasizes the distinction between literary production (discourse) and technical writing (message), the former stressing the poetic and expressive functions, the latter the referential function. Describes the language of "messages" as based on unambiguous terms that reflect the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis, Glossaries, Lexicography
Mai, Jens-Erik – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
Analyzes key problems associated with representation of the intellectual content of digital objects. Presents a framework for analysis based on Peirce's notion of unlimited semiosis. This analysis is based on the assumption that every element in the subject indexing process could be regarded a sign. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis

Smith, Ruth S. – Linguistics and Education, 1995
Describes a text and some children's readings of a fictional animal story in which a bossy rooster is "tamed" by a female sheep dog. The article's analysis of the children's discussions of the story focuses on modality to trace their acceptance of "credibility" in the text with respect to the construction of gender and the story's resolution. (23…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students, Feminism

Smith, Hazel; Dean, Roger T. – Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning (IMEJ), 2002
Focuses on the way new technologies are shifting page-based notions of literature. Argues hyperlinking and animation allow for new kinds of textual structure and linguistic mobility. Suggests the merging of words, sound, and visual image within the domain of the computer can create new types of meaning through semiotic juxtaposition and exchange.…
Descriptors: Animation, Computer Graphics, Electronic Text, Hypermedia

Brockmeier, Jens – Human Development, 1996
Examines two prominent positions in the epistemological foundations of psychology--Piaget's causal explanatory claims and Vygotsky's interpretive understanding; contends that they need to be placed in their wider philosophical contexts. Argues that the danger of causally explaining cultural practices through which human beings construct and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Comprehension, Concept Formation

Geok-Lin Lim, Shirley – World Englishes, 1990
Examines how twentieth-century Asian women writers have been and continue to be marginalized by gender, by the choice of writing in English, and, when the writer is a member of a minority, by the prevailing majority power structure. The author's recollections of experiences in Malaysia form the basis for discussion. (39 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Authors, English, Females, Foreign Countries

Myers, Maria J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
In communicative language teaching, one has to deal with both pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic components of language. Too often, learners overlook the cultural inferences of a sentence. One has to favor a cultural verification phase because it is the cultural context that imparts meaning to an event and enables mastery of a discursive process.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis

Potter, Rosanne G. – Computers and the Humanities, 1991
Reviews essays on statistical analysis of literature from the journal "Computers and the Humanities." Divides the essays into four groups: the philosophical, statistical analyses of language, literary texts, and themes. Questions whether valid statistical analysis of any text must be based on complete linguistic description. Emphasizes…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Content Analysis, Higher Education, Language Research

Gwyn-Paquette, Caroline – International Journal of Applied Semiotics, 2001
Examines signs of collaborative reflection among preservice teachers learning to use cooperative learning activities in their classrooms during their practicum through video-stimulated discussion. Classroom practice was videotaped to serve as a basis for supervisory feedback and shared reflections during video study groups. The verbatim transcript…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Educational Research