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...