The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB) announces the publication of the volume “Semiotic, Philosophical, and Environmental Questions for Education: The Work and Scientific Heritage of Andrew Stables” (Springer, 2025), edited by Alin Olteanu, Sébastien Pesce and Eetu Pikkarainen.
As the editors point out, the recently published volume was realized with a deep sense of gratefulness towards a mentor who is deeply missed. The book celebrates the life and work of the late Andrew Stables, who has inspired many scholars and has left a rich intellectual legacy. An eclectic thinker having contributed in many academic areas, he is known, in particular, as a pioneer of the semiotic approach to education.
The book, published within the Numanities – Arts and Humanities in Progress series (NAHP, volume 30), gathers scholarly contributions by leading researchers that have personally known Andrew Stables, reflecting on how his work impacted theirs. The contributions are interdisciplinary, which reflects Stables’ eclectic work. Also included are new and unpublished texts of Andrew Stables.
More details about the volume are available on the Springer publishing house website, here.
Alin Olteanu is Associate Professor at the Institute of Language Sciences of Shanghai International Studies University. He is a leading scholar in the semiotic approaches to education and literacies.
In the present, he is visiting professor at the Social Sciences Section of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB).
His visiting project at ICUB, “Putting imagination back in imaginary: a cognitive and sociotechnical theory of affordances” stems from Alin’s interest in how ongoing digitalization is extending cognition, pluralizing social representation modalities and thus producing new social imaginaries. This is a theoretical effort to bridge cognitive and social sciences by reflecting on the relation between the imagination, as a cognitive capacity to virtually entertain possible worlds, and imaginaries, as social constructions afforded through technical infrastructures. To pursue this, Alin is interested in creating a hub for the study of technological futures at ICUB.
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