Category Archives: Meaning

Pattern-recognition, intersubjectivity, and dialogic meaning-making in education

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

From a conventional monological view, meaning-making is located in a particular statement. In conventional schools, students are positioned to be enactors of ready-made knowledge and skills on teacher’s demand based on their pattern-recognition and production, rather than to be authors … Continue reading →

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Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

This text presents a Vygotskian perspective on children’s and adults’ symbolic engagement in play, multi-modal meaning making, and the arts. Psychologists, artists, and educators present research and practice in a variety of learning environments through the lens of Vygotsky’s cultural … Continue reading →

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Language, Meaning, and Social Cognition

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Social cognition is meant to examine the process of meaningful social interaction. Despite the central involvement of language in this process, language has not received the focal attention that it deserves. Conceptualizing meaningful social interaction as the process of construction … Continue reading →

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Knitting meaning – Understanding a Cultural Practice of Indigenous Communities

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

The main objective of this study is to understand the origin, history, and meaning that lie behind the practice of knitting mochilas, which is a daily activity of women, both young and old in the Arhuaca community. This study has … Continue reading →

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On the Hive Mind – Explorations in Social Semiotics

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

This thesis is about how coordinated group behavior emerges out of the many interactions between individuals. While I focus primarily on humans, other animals —including the honeybee—provide simple models to explain some of the principles that are at work in … Continue reading →