Meaning Structure
A Meaning Structure is a "frame of reference that focuses, shapes, and delimits how we "learn" and consequently act in the world. [1] Meaning structures are two-dimensional and consist of a Meaning Perspective and Meaning Scheme.[2] This term is syncretic with the LP term Creation Template.
Syncretic Terms
Creation Template > Existential Narrative, Existential Paradigm, Functional Narrative, Master Narrative, Meaning Structure
Related Terms
Meaning Structure>Transformation Theory
Notes
The concept of meaning structure is part of Mezirow's Transformation Theory of learning.
Meaning perspectives consist of broads "sets of predispositions resulting from psychocultural assumptions which determine the horizons of our expectations."[3] These predispositions serve as "codes" that significantly shape "sensation and ... perception, feelings, and cognition: sociolinguistic codes (e.g., social norms, ideologies, language games, theories), psychological codes (e.g., personality traits, repressed parental prohibitions which continue to block ways of feeling and acting), and epistemic codes (e.g., learning styles, sensory learning preferences, focus on wholes or parts, or on the concrete vs the abstract).[4]
Meaning schemes specific manifestations of .. meaning perspectives." THey are "specific consist of "symbolic models and images which are selected on the basis of past experience and projected onto sensory stimuli, frequently via metaphors to enable us to give coherence to experience"[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ Mezirow, Jack. “Understanding Transformation Theory.” Adult Education Quarterly 44, no. 4 (December 1, 1994): p.223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713694044004
- ↑ Jack Mezirow, “Understanding Transformation Theory,” Adult Education Quarterly 44, no. 4 (December 1, 1994): 222–32, doi:10.1177/074171369404400403
- ↑ Mezirow, Jack. “Understanding Transformation Theory.” Adult Education Quarterly 44, no. 4 (December 1, 1994): p.223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713694044004
- ↑ Mezirow, Jack. “Understanding Transformation Theory.” Adult Education Quarterly 44, no. 4 (December 1, 1994): p.223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713694044004
- ↑ Mezirow, Jack. “Understanding Transformation Theory.” Adult Education Quarterly 44, no. 4 (December 1, 1994): p.223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713694044004
