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| − | {{ | + | | name = Alfie Kohn |
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| + | | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|10|15}} | ||
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| + | | known_for = Educational/Parenting activist | ||
| + | | occupation = Author, Lecturer | ||
| + | | main interests = Education, Psychology and Parenting | ||
| + | | website = http://www.AlfieKohn.org | ||
| + | | wikipedia = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Kohn | ||
| + | | description = Alfie Kohn speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. His main critique is that traditional parenting and education models models are too prescriptive, and assume a selfish, often narrow, behaviourist focus ("How to I get the kids to do what I want?") rather than trusting kids as independent moral agents. | ||
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| + | Akin to [[John Taylor Gatto]], he is a sharp critic of exams and competition for the sake of it. Time magazine called him "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades (and) test scores." | ||
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Alfie Kohn speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. His main critique is that traditional parenting and education models models are too prescriptive, and assume a selfish, often narrow, behaviourist focus ("How to I get the kids to do what I want?") rather than trusting kids as independent moral agents. Akin to John Taylor Gatto, he is a sharp critic of exams and competition for the sake of it. Time magazine called him "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades (and) test scores." See Also
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