Semiotics

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 5 inanimate objects, they are embodiments of myths, ideas, and ...

6 Kostas Dimopoulos Taking into account all three dimensions, one can identify two ideal type educational programs, broadly refl ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 7 vertical discourse of a knowledge domain which takes the for ...

8 Kostas Dimopoulos 2.2. The Second Ideal Type: Post Modern Schooling (Mid Seventies Until Today) The second ideal-type of schoo ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 9 of flexible skills (genericism), rather than any coherent bo ...

10 Kostas Dimopoulos Classification examines the relations between categories, whether these categories are between institutions ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 11 base of communications in school which constitutes the othe ...

12 Kostas Dimopoulos Apart from the aforementioned mechanisms, the compartmentalization of space which symbolically corresponds ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 13 Table 2. Semiotic resources for classification Resource Str ...

14 Kostas Dimopoulos United States where so-called progressive practices came to be characterized by the single epithet ̳open‘ ( ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 15 outdoor spaces, social area, dining/cafeteria, etc, has dom ...

16 Kostas Dimopoulos universality of materials and apparatuses, deliberate avoidance of any feature that might provide a school ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 17 Source: Personal archive. Figure 4. School built in Cyprus ...

18 Kostas Dimopoulos identity. The same role is played by the various features that tend to function as diacritica of local iden ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 19 Figure 6. The floor plan of a typical classroom. In this fl ...

20 Kostas Dimopoulos Figure 7. A multi-centered floor plan of a post modern classroom. All three of the aforementioned case stud ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 21 Thus, specific technologies of power enacted in school envi ...

22 Kostas Dimopoulos perceived. Therefore, one could argue that strong framing is equivalent to users‘ (students‘) surveillance. ...

Signifying the Transition from Modern to Post-Modern Schooling... 23 impose a specific unidirectional path for everyone and no-o ...

24 Kostas Dimopoulos Similar trends for more flexibility can be also traced in the design of workplaces. Specifically, workplace ...