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Email this article Is Water an Input to a Fish? Problems with the Production-Function Model in Education
Abstract
The concept of a production-function as a metaphor of the educational process is critiqued. In particular, Monk's (1992) discussion of the production-function is seen as typical of the final stages of a dying paradigm.
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