主讲人简介
Dr. Francois Victor Tochon, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is heading World Language Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, a Department highly ranked in its specialty in the United States. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (Laval), a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Ottawa), and has received three Honorary Doctorates from two universities in Argentina and Peru and one international Asia-Pacific association, as well as a Honorary Professorship from Henan University of Technology. With 48 books and more than 280 articles and book chapters to his credit, Professor Tochon has also been Visiting Professor in many universities in 20 countries. He is currently published in 14 languages. He received the 2010 Award of Best Review of Research from the American Educational Research Association. As President of the International Network for Language Education Policy Studies, Prof. Tochon received the 2012 Award of International Research Excellence from the University of Granada, Spain. He is among the 1% most visited profiles of LinkedIn. He is also the designer and Chairman of Deep University, an academic institution that proposes to students to design their own programs and degrees with the help of academic mentors. For the merits of the Deep Approach, Prof. Tochon was awarded the medal of the Council Chairperson of the Lions Club International, and the Quest medal of the Chairperson of the Lions Club International Foundation for Service to Humanity. His 2014 book Help Them Learn a Language Deeply became a best seller. His 2015 book Language Education Policy Unlimited received the Amazon Distinguished Book Award. International Ambassador for isIPAL in Australia, Prof. Tochon received the 2015 Excellence in Diversity Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 2015 International Scholar Award of Shanghai Normal University, and 2015 Eminent Scholar Award from the University of Southern Queensland.
讲座内容
Semiotics is the study of signs in action, named semiosis. Semiosis is about meaning making. The study of signs that are meaningful for Education deals with the story behind learning and teaching events, the way teaching and learning are shaped and formed, unraveling the meaning of symbols. Semiosis can be described as any activity or process to discover/analyze the production of meaning. It is part of the perception process. Human learning and cognition can be considered in terms of continually changing signs interacting with their environment. Semiotics focuses on qualitative, analogical sensing rather than semantic reasoning. Nowadays educational meanings are often conveyed through the internet, in an area of meaning making that is defined as “cybersemiotic,” which raises new issues for education. As an inquiry process, educational semiotics integrates the human dimension in its analysis of logical reasoning. The discussion provides an overview of how semiotic analysis may be useful for Education purposes. Through semiotic analyses, educational inquiry moves beyond discourse analysis towards critical discourse analysis. Such analytic processes may focus on cross-cultural symbolic and the relations of power.
时间地点
时间：3月25日（周一）15: 30 - 17: 00
地点：同文楼214
