符号教育:美国儿童学习的奥秘

Educational Semiotics:Key to American Children's Learning

教育即教育符号的创制、释义、应用。教育与符号深切关联,符号学乃贯通人文、社会和自然科学的公分母。符号教育即通过充分、全面和深度挖掘符号以培养人的个性化、创造性发展的教育形态。以符号学理论为工具构建符号教育学是信息时代教育发展的必然。研究者结合自己2017在美国威斯康星大学访学经历,深度观察美国威斯康星州基础教育状况。并从符号学视角解析美国儿童学习成功的奥秘——符号教育。美国儿童学习中符号教育主要体现在六个方面:教育符号的泛在性;符号思维的可视性;符号意义的不确定性;符号运作的开放性;符号知识的经验性;符号学习的趣味性。

Education is the creation,interpretation and application of educational signs,which means education is closely related to signs.Semiotics is the common denominator of humanities,social and natural sciences.While educational semiotics?is a new form of education which aims at cultivate individuality and innovation by studying signs in an effective,comprehensive and profound manner.So it's inevitable to develop educational semiotics?on the basis of semiotics against the backdrop of information age.This paper,based on authors experience as visiting scholars at the University of Wisconsin during 2016-2017,portraits basic education in Wisconsin,and analyzes a key to success for American children's learning from the perspective of semiotics,that is educational semiotics.It is concluded that educational semiotics in American basic education has six traits:universality of educational signs;visibility of semiotic thinking;uncertainty of semiotic significance;openness of semiotic operation;empiricality of semiotic knowledge;blissfulness of semiotic learning.