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Beyond DisciplineFrom Compliance to Community by Alfie Kohn
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Category: MIND BODY SPIRIT
What is most remarkable about the assortment of discipline programs on the market today is the number of fundamental assumptions they seem to share. Some may advocate the use of carrots rather than sticks; some may refer to punishments as "logical consequences." But virtually all take for granted that t ...Show more
Feel-Bad Education: Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling by Alfie Kohn
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Category: MIND BODY SPIRIT
One of education's most outspoken voices presents a challenging and entertaining writing on where we should go in American education. Kohn argues in the title essay with those who think that high standards mean joylessness in the classroom.
Punished by Rewards - The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, a's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
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Category: Parenting
Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology, featuring updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the authorOur basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summed up in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies ...Show more
The Homework Myth : Why Our Children Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn
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Category: MIND BODY SPIRIT
This work is a compelling expose of homework - its negative effects, why it's so widely accepted, and what we can do about it.Whilst they're free of many of the worries of adulthood, one of the inevitable downsides faced by kids is the idea that after spending the day at school, they must complete more ...Show more
The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises by Alfie Kohn
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Category: MIND BODY SPIRIT
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 ...Show more
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
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Category: Parenting
This book presents a provocative challenge to the conventional wisdom of raising children. Author of nine books, including the controversial Punished by Rewards, Kohn expands upon the theme of what's wrong with our society's emphasis on punishments and rewards with regards raising children. Kohn, the f ...Show more
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