What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies - Couverture souple

Kohn, Alfie

 
9780807032671: What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0807032670 ISBN 13 : 9780807032671
Editeur : Beacon Press, 2004

Synopsis

Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S. school.'

In this new collection of essays, Kohn takes on some of the most important and controversial topics in education of the last few years. His central focus is on the real goals of education-a topic, he argues, that we systematically ignore while lavishing attention on misguided models of learning and counterproductive techniques of motivation.

The shift to talking about goals yields radical conclusions and wonderfully pungent essays that only Alfie Kohn could have written. From the title essay's challenge to conventional, conservative definitions of a good education to essays on standards and testing and grades that tally the severe educational costs of overemphasizing a narrow conception of achievement, Kohn boldly builds on his earlier work and writes for a wide audience.

Kohn's new book will be greeted with enthusiasm by his many readers and by any teacher or parent looking for a refreshing perspective on today's debates about schools.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alfie Kohn's previous eight books include Punished by Rewards, No Contest, and The Schools Our Children Deserve. He speaks widely to teachers and parents and lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.

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Éditeur
Beacon Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807032670
ISBN 13 
9780807032671
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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