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Feel-bad education : and other contrarian essays on children and schooling / Alfie Kohn.
- Title
- Feel-bad education : and other contrarian essays on children and schooling / Alfie Kohn.
- Author
- Kohn, Alfie
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- 215 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Feel bad education
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Progressive education: why it's hard to beat, but also hard to find -- Challenging students and how to have more of them -- Getting hit on the head lessons -- It's not what we teach; it's what they learn -- Who's cheating whom? -- How to create nonreaders : reflections on motivation, learning, and sharing power -- The trouble with rubrics -- The value of negative learning -- Unconditional teaching -- Safety from the inside out -- Bad signs -- Feel-bad education : the cult of rigor and the loss of joy -- Against "competitiveness" -- When twenty-first-century schooling just isn't good enough : a modest proposal -- Debunking the case for national standards -- Atrocious advice from supernanny -- Parental love with strings attached -- Why self-discipline is overrated : the (troubling) theory and practice of control from within -- Cash incentives won't make us healthier.
- ISBN
- 9780807001400 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807001406 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010037081
- OCLC
- 648922417
- SCSB-12319786
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library