"The focus is on how people use language to make meanings with each other as they carry out the activities of their social lives.
To Ghanizadeh and Mirzaee, "all the above-mentioned qualities fall adequately within higher-order abilities associated with making meaning from text and reading between lines, such as inference-making, deduction, argument evaluation, and interpretation, all of which are manifestations of critical thinking ability" (p. 58).
The social constructivist pedagogy, with students building their knowledge of the subject through negotiating and making meaning from the curriculum with instructors and peers, positively influenced students' perceptions of the course.
Learning normally starts by observing or experiencing, continues with making meaning and relating current experiences to cognitive systems which learners have previously developed.
All concept map qualities fall effectively within higher order abilities related with making meaning, deduction, argument evaluation, and interpretation, all of which are revelations of reasoning ability.
This kind of self-management is categorized as living with illness by Schulman-Green et al. [ 15] and includes tasks like adjusting to a "new" self, modifying one's lifestyle to adapt to disease, seeking normalcy and making meaning of a life with illness.
There's just us - just humans grasping in the darkness, making meaning through argument and consensus, with no Platonic bedrock "out there" to sink our anchors into.
"Now, should students be making meaning of what they're hearing or coming up with questions?
And making meaning makes money.
