In this paper I present the view that inquiry in education can profit from insights from semiotics. Semiotics holds that cognition, or semiosis, is the building up of structures of signs from experience. We create a personal world, an Umwelt, that determines what we perceive and know. The environment also “affords” various structures and these affordances offer special ways to interact with the...

The paper explores, in a semiotics approach, the natures and the relationships between the category of information and its relatives that are data and knowledge. The resultant process model makes clear both the evolutionary natures and the triadic relation among the information categories. In addition, drawn on Peirce’s theory of inquiry which stresses the role of community along the inquiring ...

В статье исследуется процесс формирования оценочных смыслов в ходе познавательной и коммуникативной деятельности. Признаётся, что семиотическая природа оценки взаимосвязана с универсальным способом преобразования знаний о мире на уровне индивидуального коллективного сознания. Воздействие оценочно отмеченных знаков активирует когнитивные (смысловые) схемы, структурирующие опыт языковой фиксации ...

Virtual system methodology (VSM) tries to extend system inquiring processes beyond the scope of soft systems methodology, and thus make it applicable to the whirling dynamics of social complexity. At the core of VSM is the process of virtual semiosis, the use of various signs and sign structures while making sense of the emergent behavior of a complex dynamic system as a whole. VSM applies virt...

The semiosis of the social domain is shaped by the specificities of language and symbolic communication among human beings. Language can be considered as the evolutionary achievement of the capacity to communicate at two levels simultaneously: humans can communicate both uncertainty and meaning. The operation of giving meaning to the uncertainty is recursive since the interaction among meanings...