For the past three years, the Transmedia Research Group at the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, has been developing open access online materials for supporting the teaching of humanities-related subjects in Estonian- and Russianlanguage secondary schools. This paper maps the theoretical and conceptual starting points of these materials. The overarching goal of the educational platforms is to support cultural coherence and autocommunication by cultivating literacies necessary for holding meaningful dialogues with cultural heritage. To achieve the goal, the authors have been seeking ways of purposeful harnessing of transmedial, crossmedial and other tools offered by the contemporary digital communication space. We have started with an understanding of culture as education – a model which is grounded in cultural semiotics and highlights the role of cultural experience and cultural self-description in learning literacies. From these premises we proceed to explicating the value of a transdisciplinary pedagogy for methodical translation of the theoretical concepts into practical solutions in teaching and learning culture.

中文翻译：

---

文化作为教育：从中介性到跨学科教学法

在过去的三年中，塔尔图大学符号学系的跨媒体研究小组一直在开发开放式在线材料，以支持在爱沙尼亚语和俄语语言中学中与人文有关的学科的教学。本文绘制了这些材料的理论和概念起点。教育平台的总体目标是通过培养与文化遗产进行有意义的对话所必需的文学知识，来支持文化的连贯性和自动交流。为了实现这一目标，作者一直在寻找有目的地利用当代数字通信空间提供的中介，跨媒介和其他工具的方法。我们从对文化作为教育的理解开始-一种基于文化符号学的模型，强调了文化经验和文化自我描述在学习文学方面的作用。从这些前提出发，我们继续阐述跨学科教学法在将理论概念有条理地转化为教学和学习文化的实际解决方案中的价值。