World and/or sign: Toward a semiotic phenomenology of the modern life-world

Human Studies ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 311-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briankle G. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Modern Life ◽  
Life World ◽  
Semiotic Phenomenology

scholarly journals Learning mathematics for personal understanding  and productions: A viewpoint 

Pythagoras ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 0 (72) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mtetwa ◽  
Lazarus Mudehwe ◽  
Sheunesu Munyira
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Life World ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Personal Understanding

In this paper we reflect on what makes mathematics more meaningful and more easily understood and thus enabling the learner to apply it to everyday situations in his/her life world. We identify personal – in relation to ‘collective’ or ‘public’ – mathematising as one key component towards real understanding of mathematics. We observe that today’s mathematics learner is often typified by such orientations as approaching the subject with timidity and in a cookbook fashion, adopting a re‐productive rather than a productive mode, and showing lack of intrinsic interest in the subject. Debilitating effects of some of these characteristics in relation to learning mathematics for personal development, include learner’s failure to exploit the subject’s natural features for developing own mental orientations such as algorithmic, stochastic, reflective, and creative thinking so essential in coping with modern life environments. We propose that, for inspirational effects, learners should have closer contact with and appreciation for the activities and practices of the professional mathematician. The mathematics teacher could enhance the learner’s mathematical learning experience by orienting instructional designs in ways that make the learning processes and outcomes more personal to the learner.

LIFE WORLD AND GLOBAL CIVILIZATION

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-152
Author(s):  
Algis Mickūnas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Life World ◽  
Logical Rules

The article is designed to demonstrate that the Western modern life world is constituted by the reconstruction of the natural environment in accordance with formal logical rules that are not derivable from contingent facts. Logical rules are selected as techniques in terms of their value to fulfill “needs” and hence to shape the environment into a “technical life world” that becomes globalized as “scientific” demanding that the life worlds of the others develop to become modern and technical. This means that the globalized technical life world is not a set of facts but signitive systems of logical, non‐temporal and non‐spacial vectors of “communication” taking precedence over the material‐productive levels of any society.

THE MEANING OF DEPRESSION FROM THE LIFE-WORLD PERSPECTIVE OF ELDERLY WOMEN

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgitta Hedelin ◽  
Margaretha Strandmark
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Women ◽  
Life World ◽  
World Perspective

Review of The Rage Within: Anger in Modern Life.

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 907-907
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Modern Life

Abnormal psychology and modern life.

1951 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-85
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Abnormal Psychology ◽  
Modern Life

Becoming a person in the life-world

PARADIGMI ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 91-110
Author(s):  
Jagna Brudzinska
Keyword(s):  
Life World
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