From a nationally respected educator, the author of "Punished by Rewards" and "The Schools Our Children Deserve," comes a provocative challenge to the conventional wisdom about raising children. von Kohn, Alfie

Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology, featuring updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author Our basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be...

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise, and Other Bribes

In "Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and 'Tougher Standards'", untersucht der Bildungsforscher Alfie Kohn die gegenwärtigen Trends in der amerikanischen Bildung. Er kritisiert die zunehmende Abhängigkeit...

A landmark psychological critique of basic motivational strategy, this book attacks the strategy of dangling incentives in front of people to affect their behavior. von Kohn, Alfie

"Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason" von Alfie Kohn ist ein bahnbrechendes Buch, das traditionelle Methoden der Kindererziehung in Frage stellt. Kohn argumentiert, dass die gängigen...

Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And...