creators_name: Armstrong, J. Scott
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datestamp: 2006-10-05
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title: Learner Responsibility in Management Education, or Ventures into Forbidden Research (with Comments)
ispublished: pub
subjects: behanal
full_text_status: public
abstract: Formal education can be improved by transferring responsibility from the teacher to the learner. A simple approach to this is the time contract. Time contracts have been used successfully in nine quasi-experiments but, despite these successes, some educators see this as subversive research.
date: 1983
date_type: published
publication: Interfaces
volume: 13
pagerange: 26-38
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Armstrong, J. Scott  (1983) Learner Responsibility in Management Education, or Ventures into Forbidden Research (with Comments).  [Journal (Paginated)]     
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