""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Semiotics of Schooling and Teaching""; ""Semiotics""; ""Nature of the Sign""; ""Applied Semiotics""; ""Signs in Schooling""; ""Distinguishing between Education and Schooling""; ""The Culture of Schools""; ""Schools in Historical Perspective""; ""Adolescents in School""; ""Signs in Teaching""; ""The Culture of Classrooms""; ""Signs of the Expert Teacher""; ""2 Signs in Communication""; ""Teaching as Communicating in Signs""; ""Defining Communication""; ""Communication in the Classroom""; ""Verbal Signs""; ""The Limitations of Discourse""

""Questioning""""Non-Verbal Signs""; ""Environmental Factors""; ""Proxemics""; ""Kinesics""; ""Haptics""; ""Physical Characteristics""; ""Paralanguage""; ""Artefacts""; ""Signs, Communication, and Cultures""; ""3 Signs in Class Management and Discipline""; ""Signs in Class Management""; ""Adolescence and Class Management""; ""Setting the Stage""; ""Main Approaches to Classroom Management""; ""Five Signs of Effective Teachers""; ""Before School Begins""; ""The First Day of School""; ""Organization and Management during the First Few Weeks""; ""Maintaining What Has Been Accomplished Together""

""Signs in Discipline""""Examining Teachers� Beliefs about Discipline""; ""Challenges to Classroom Order""; ""The Challenges to Mr Altonen""; ""Analysing the Challenges to Mr Altonen""; ""Other Challenges""; ""Promoting Student Self-Discipline and Responsibility for Learning""; ""Some Dos and Don�ts of Discipline""; ""In General, What Should Teachers Do?""; ""In General, What Should Teachers Not Do?""; ""Management for Pre-Service Teachers""; ""4 Signs in Adolescent Development""; ""Nomothetic and Idiographic Knowledge""; ""Effects of Nature and Nurture on Behaviour""

""Nature (Heredity)""""Nurture (Environment)""; ""Nature and Nurture""; ""Time""; ""Genes and Memes""; ""Physical Development""; ""Puberty and Physical Characteristics""; ""Sex Differences in the Brain""; ""Can People or Activities Be �Left-Brained�?""; ""Brain Growth and Development""; ""The Left-Handed Adolescent""; ""Cognitive Development""; ""Semiotic and Information-Processing Approaches""; ""Jean Piaget�s Theory: An Appraisal""; ""Lev Vygotsky�s Theory: A Comparison""; ""Recent Advances in Theory and Research""; ""Moral Development""; ""Social and Emotional Development""

""Social Development""""Emotional Development""; ""5 Signs of Learning""; ""Learning and Its Major Approaches""; ""Six Levels of Learning""; ""The Behaviourist Approach""; ""The Information Processing (Cognitive Constructivist) Approach""; ""The Cultural Constructivist Approach""; ""Comparing the Major Approaches to Learning""; ""The Signways of Learning""; ""The Linguistic Signway""; ""The Musical Signway""; ""The Logical-Mathematical Signway""; ""The Spatial Signway""; ""The Bodily-Kinesthetic Signway""; ""The Social-Personal Signway""; ""The Naturalistic Signway""