CONFLICT RESOLUTION TRAINING COACHING RESOURCES ABOUT EMMA

AUDIO INTERVIEWS
Alfie Kohn (30 minutes) Alfie Kohn is a well-known author and lecturer who has challenged generally held assumptions about, competions, rewards, learning, and standardized testing. In this interview, Alfie maintains that if we want to help our children become thoughtful, empathetic citizens, we need to move beyond simplistic expectations of compliance and achievement. Instead, we need to search for the meaning behind the behavior and engage children in thoughtful self-reflective conversations.	This text will be replaced Play Audio Interview

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of eleven books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations. Kohn's criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.";

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