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The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. "Do rewards motivate people?" asks Kohn. "Yes. They motivate people to get rewards." Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished By Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.

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"a clear, convincing demonstration of the shortcomings of pop-behaviorism, written with style, humor, and authority," Kirkus Reviews

"Every parent, teacher, and manager should read this book -- and hurry." -- Thomas Gordon, founder of Parent Effectiveness Training

About the Author

ALFIE KOHN's published works include Punished by Rewards, No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Beyond Discipline, and What to Look for in a Classroom. Described by Time as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of educational fixation on grades and test scores," he has traveled across the country delivering lectures to teachers, parents, and researchers.

Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books; 2 edition (September 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618001816
ISBN-13: 978-0618001811
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 143 customer reviews
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- #267 in Books > Self-Help > Relationships > Interpersonal Relations
- #291 in Books > Science & Math > Behavioral Sciences

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Alice Becker

A better world through contructivism, collaboration, and higher order thinking skills.

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Imagine if students were excited to go to school every day. Instead they face the short term memory game and are encouraged to get grades instead of thinking skills. Alfie Kohn shows us alternatives to the mind numbing techniques teachers and students are coerced into accepting in the current traditional system most of our schools have adopted.

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It’s a great paradigm shift in the way that education is traditionally ...

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This is a must read for any educator. It’s a great paradigm shift in the way that education is traditionally implemented.

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Normster 75

Why shcools and work don't work

July 3, 2010

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The author makes a great case for imagination and freedom over Behavioral Psychology and punishments and rewards as the primary way to get work done. Not mentioned, but one of my favorites is the fact that all schools pit students against each other and punish or reward based on individual behavior when, once someone gets to the real world we expect them to work as a team! But, the author makes such a good case for the errors inherent in our current reward structure that it is heartbreaking to see it everywhere.

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Fig Wriggly

Very informative and reflective

August 18, 2016

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Enjoyed the uncomfortable challenge the author puts the reader. Because it is, should it be? He goes through the arguments well, and challenges.

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Beckykjolso

So valuable!

December 6, 2015

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As a mom and teacher I HIGHLY recommend this book. It has positively impacted my children and students in so many wonderful ways. I am already seeing more caring young people each day.

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Clare L. Christie

Rewards and Punishment Don't Work

October 21, 2007

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I've always been suspicious of the whole system of rewards and punishments as it is always dependent on the mood of the giver/depriver. Particularly as they are evaluating something about the child as acceptable or unacceptable without actually taking the time to understand the behaviour or the underlying need.

Consistency is always a problem too as we are organically inconsistent and therefore prone to be human!

This book spells out exactly the areas that rewards and punishment cause damage, ie in terms of internal emotional effect. It is written clearly and simply enough for parents, teachers and carers to understand.

It is shockingly blunt and often humourous in it's approach and I applaud this. It has shaken me up, particularly in the area of praise where I didn't realise how much I praised in the hope of getting the child to change their behaviour.

Personally I think all parents and teachers should be made to read this book in order to understand the subtle differences between internal and external motivation. I think that 'Time Out' and deprivation and punishment is a form of abuse - an abuse of power.

When witnessing people using such methods I have always had a real feeling that they lack creativity and fall back on all they have known. Well the great news is that there are other ways of parenting and teaching where everyone can feel great and be respectful and self motivated.

After all we are not dogs or rats!

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DurgaDas

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December 20, 2008

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Having read some of the previous reviews on this topic I find them to be suitably erudite as the subject matter in this book is. Many do seem to still be thinking of this book in terms they were educated in and reluctant to move from that. It is indeed a radical book, as one review stated. I think suitably so. I came away from this book convinced of the complete need to eliminate punishments from my teaching lexicon. Having said that, I am a spiritual and yoga teacher, and not someone who comes to students in a classroom system that largely castrates the ability to practice what he would point out in this book without large systemic changes in how education is done.

The fact is he presents the research to back up the utter uselessness of punishments and what appears to be their flip side (but isn't) rewards. This would seem to avoid the control disease that the entire English system of schooling has clearly built into it. There are certainly other ways of accomplishing happy and educated children- like the gurukula system of India- where the teacher's entire life and example serves to educate the student, not merely the content of their assigned 'topic'.

I believe that rewards and punishments are an outgrowth of the control disease promoted throughout the world by England and it's educational system still in place to this day. Overall, a stellar book that I think of often in my mind when considering how to approach my students.

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