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Alfie Kohn

Author, Speaker & Educator

  







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Educator, Speaker, Author

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http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/ob_knowing.shtml 

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Behavior; Education; Measures, Targets and Rewards; Motivation

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United States, Boston

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Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn is the author of several books on human behavior and education.

He is a former teacher and now works with educators across North America and speaks at major conferences.
"We have been in prison from wrong teaching. By perceiving that cooperation is the answer, not competition, Alfie Kohn opens a new world of living. I am deeply indebted to him."


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Book
  Punished by Rewards (Sep 1999 ) by Alfie Kohn
The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

  Unconditional Parenting (Mar 2005 ) by Alfie Kohn
Moving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason

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  Rewarding and Punishing Knowledge Sharing
A presentation I gave at The Deming Forum "Exploring Transformation", 14th May 2003, Doncaster

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  Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

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  On believers by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

  On destroying the love of learning in children by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

  On incentive-driven individuals by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

  On punishment and reward by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

  On quality and working together by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

  On rewarding innovation by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

  On test scores by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

  On the convenience of stamping students by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

  On trying to do well and trying to beat others by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator

Weblog Entry
  Rewarding and recognizing knowledge sharing
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 15 September 2002

  Alfie Kohn on human behavior, education, and society
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 15 September 2002

  Should we bribe kids to behave well?
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 14 March 2004

  Thoughts on Schooling
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 26 May 2004

  Death to the Syllabus!
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 14 December 2007



Quotations from Alfie Kohn:

 What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator



 We destroy the ... love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards--gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys -- in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else.

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator



 Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator
Punished by Rewards



 Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator
Punished by Rewards



 Many of the familiar principles of Quality management amount to an elaboration of this simple truth: an innovative, healthy organization requires that we work with people rather than do things to them.

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator



 If You Want to Kill Innovation, Reward It!

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator



 When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator



 Some people undoubtedly find it convenient to have students arrive having already been stamped PRIME, CHOICE, SELECT, or STANDARD.

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator
Punished by Rewards



 Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things.

Alfie Kohn, Author, Speaker & Educator





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