Alfie Kohn is een prominente stem die conventionele benaderingen van menselijk gedrag, onderwijs en ouderschap aan de kaak stelt. Hij wordt breed erkend voor zijn kritiek op concurrentie en beloningen, die tot aanzienlijke debatten hebben geleid en hem de erkenning hebben opgeleverd als een vooraanstaand criticus van de fixatie van het onderwijs op cijfers en testscores. Kohn's werk duikt in de dynamiek van motivatie en leren, en pleit voor methoden die intrinsieke drijfveren en een dieper begrip van ontwikkeling bevorderen. Zijn geschriften en lezingen moedigen lezers en publiek aan om gevestigde praktijken te heroverwegen en meer collaboratieve en doordachte strategieën te omarmen.
No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers.
Since its publication in 1993, this groundbreaking book has convinced countless parents, teachers, and managers that working with people is more successful than doing things to them. Do rewards motivate people? asks Kohn. Yes. They motivate people to get rewards. Moreover, the use of rewards actually undermines the quality of people's work or learning - and causes them to lose interest in whatever they've been bribed to do. Seasoned with humour and familiar examples - and updated to include a wealth of recent research, Punished by Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.
Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, this book presents an argument that is unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss
The author of Punished by Rewards and The Schools Our Children Deserve returns with a provocative challenge to the conventional ways of raising children. Kohn argues that all children have the need to be loved unconditionally, yet conventional approaches to parenting, such as punishment and reward, teach children that they are loved only when they please and impress parents. Kohn cites powerful research detailing the damage this can cause. Unconditional Parenting pushes parents to question their ideas of parenting and offers practical solutions to problems.
Exploring the essential needs of children in the educational system, this book presents thought-provoking insights from a prominent advocate for reform. It delves into the gaps in traditional schooling and emphasizes the importance of fostering creativity, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. Through compelling arguments and real-world examples, the author challenges conventional practices and proposes innovative approaches to better support the diverse needs of students.
"A prominent and esteemed critic challenges widely held beliefs about children and parenting, revealing that underlying each myth is a deeply conservative ideology that is, ironically, often adopted by liberal parents. Somehow a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children--what they're like and how they should be raised--have congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society. Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. Young people, meanwhile, are routinely described as entitled and narcissistic. With the same lively, contrarian style that characterizes all of his influential work, Alfie Kohn systematically debunks these beliefs--not only challenging erroneous factual claims but also exposing the troubling ideology that underlies them. Relying on new research and a vast collection of social science data, as well as on logic and humor, he challenges popular parenting myths and argues that, in fact, the major threat to healthy child development is parenting that is too controlling rather than too indulgent"-- Provided by publisher
The book presents a transformative approach to discipline in educational settings, advocating for a shift from traditional methods to collaborative strategies. Alfie Kohn emphasizes the importance of working alongside students to foster caring communities, rather than imposing control. This 10th anniversary edition includes a new afterword that further explores these innovative ideas, reinforcing the need for a more compassionate and engaging learning environment.
This volume examines what's right with education, advocating schools that support children's innate desire to learn; schools that treat students as individuals, not widgets; and classrooms in which positive values are absorbed rather than drilled. schovat popis
Parenting and education expert Alfie Kohn tackles the misconception that overparenting and overindulgence has produced a modern generation of entitled children incapable of making their way in the world.
