The Semiotics of the World and Educational Understanding of Everything

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.12.004

Abstract

Abstract:

The world reveals itself with signs and semiosis, and being contains understanding and being understood. The relationship between signs and understanding shows the meaningful communication among all things in the world. Signs and their interpretants do not necessarily base on human language. All things, through signs and understanding, form intersubjectivities, establish co-creation and, affordances, and form the structures and orders of the world. The semiotic processes or actions of all things establish each other, give to each other, and shape each other, presenting a nurturing and educational relationship, establishing inter-educational meanings. For educational practices of human, it is necessary to face the multiple semiotic processes of the world, open up more semiotic spaces to perceive, respond to, and understand the semiosis of all things, and to form connections of educational meanings at multiple levels, in order to obtain educational shaping from the existence of all things, and thus it is a try to recreate new types of education that nurtures the human singularity in the era of artificial intelligence.

Key words: semiotics, perception of things, educational understanding, meaning-making, hermeneutics of education in everything

Shenghong Jin. The Semiotics of the World and Educational Understanding of Everything[J]. Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa, 2025, 43(12): 50-59.

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