What is Education?: Re‐reading metaphysics in search of foundations

From the Ontology of Interaction to the Semiotics of Education

“…They all consider ontology extremely important to philosophy and also to practice of education, up to suggesting exactly the phrase "ontological turn" in their texts or even titles (Barnett, 2004;2009;Dall'Alba & Barnacle, 2007;Pio & Varkøy, 2012;Rømer, 2013). Common themes in these papers are: values and aims of education (Ibid, Bonnett, 2000;Brook, 2012;Kristjánsson, 2010), ontological commitments of educational research (Wegerif, 2008), and especially the concept of dialogue and its ontological bearings in education ( , 2012;Wegerif, 2008). A very strong shared influence is from Heideggerian phenomenological and existential ontology of human existence, being-in-the-world (Dall'Alba & Barnacle, 2007;Pio & Varkøy, 2012).…”