Whole-Class Self-Referential Feedback from University EFL Contexts to the World: Extending the Social Life of Information by Looping it Forward

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Falout, Joseph ^a   Murphey, Tim ^b   Fukuda, Tetsuya ^c   Fukada, Yoshifumi ^d  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANDA UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Action research; Agency; Critical participatory looping (CPL); Ecological adaptability; Motivation; Socially intelligent dynamic systems (SINDYS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957593513     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: 22437908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40299-015-0227-4     Document Type: Article

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