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Cyclonic Transactions as Cultural Ecological Mechanisms for Investigating Change and Facilitating Action Research in Education

Cyclonic Transactions as Cultural Ecological Mechanisms for Investigating Change and Facilitating Action Research in Education

Andrew Creed, Patrick Dillon
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781466660465|ISBN10: 1466660465|EISBN13: 9781466660472
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6046-5.ch057
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Creed, Andrew, and Patrick Dillon. "Cyclonic Transactions as Cultural Ecological Mechanisms for Investigating Change and Facilitating Action Research in Education." Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society, edited by Viktor Wang, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 768-780. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6046-5.ch057

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Creed, A. & Dillon, P. (2014). Cyclonic Transactions as Cultural Ecological Mechanisms for Investigating Change and Facilitating Action Research in Education. In V. Wang (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society (pp. 768-780). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6046-5.ch057

Chicago

Creed, Andrew, and Patrick Dillon. "Cyclonic Transactions as Cultural Ecological Mechanisms for Investigating Change and Facilitating Action Research in Education." In Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society, edited by Viktor Wang, 768-780. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6046-5.ch057

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Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to draw together two theoretical perspectives on the dynamics of educational change and propose a contemporary integrated framework as an analytical tool for use in education. A cultural ecological framework, which views the individual as an integral part of the environment and places significance on interaction with the environment in the context of daily work, is integrated with a cyclonic transactional framework, which emerges from recent research on online education and traverses hermeneutical, transformational mechanisms. The cyclonic transactional framework forms a bridge between abstraction and lived experience, which are both at the heart of the cultural ecological framework, and provides a mechanism through which learning relationships may be explored. The augmented and integrated framework, developed from historical and current explorations, is a tool that can assist policy development, implementation, and evaluation for both classroom and online education.

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