ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the latest thinking of a group of scholars who have been engaged in studying learning in relation to semiosis to understand how personal growth and meaning-making develop through engagement with signs. It addresses the problem of learning from the 'fully semiotic' perspective. The book discusses learning as habit taking and habit change: from Firstness to Thirdness, following Charles S. Peirce. It also discusses ecosemiotics as a theory of learning. The book focuses on being, meaning and competence: learning from the point of view of action theoretical semiotics. It provides a broad understanding of human learning, starting from ontological bases of living and non-living beings and their properties as dispositions and qualities. The book explains the ecological implications of a semiotic theory of learning.
