Feel-bad education
Subtitle: and other contrarian essays on children and schooling
By: Alfie Kohn
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780807001400
Subjects: Public schools; Education; Aims and objectives
Other titles: Feel bad education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Progressive education: why it's hard to beat, but also hard to find; title: Challenging students and how to have more of them; title: Getting hit on the head lessons; title: It's not what we teach; it's what they learn; title: Who's cheating whom?; title: How to create nonreaders : reflections on motivation, learning, and sharing power; title: The trouble with rubrics; title: The value of negative learning; title: Unconditional teaching; title: Safety from the inside out; title: Bad signs; title: Feel-bad education : the cult of rigor and the loss of joy; title: Against "competitiveness"; title: When twenty-first-century schooling just isn't good enough : a modest proposal; title: Debunking the case for national standards; title: Atrocious advice from supernanny; title: Parental love with strings attached; title: Why self-discipline is overrated : the (troubling) theory and practice of control from within; title: Cash incentives won't make us healthier.