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Alfie Kohn is an educator that wrote a book saying that all forms of reward and punishment are manipulation and should be abandoned in education.
Judging people does not help them.
"Alfie Kohn shows that while
manipulating people with incentives seems
to work in the short run, it is a strategy that
ultimately fails and even does lasting harm.
Our workplaces and classrooms will continue
to decline, he argues, until we begin to
question our reliance on a theory of motivation
derived from laboratory animals.
Drawing from hundreds of studies, Kohn
demonstrates that people actually do inferior
work when they are enticed with
money, grades, or other incentives. Programs
that use rewards to change people's
behavior are similarly ineffective over the
long run. Promising goodies to children for
good behavior can never produce anything
more than temporary obedience. In fact,
the more we use artificial inducements to
motivate people, the more they lose interest
in what we're bribing them to do. Rewards
turn play into work, and work into drudgery.
http://www.deming.ch/Alfie_Kohn/E_Reward.pdf
I first heard about Alfie Kohn from Marshall Rosenberg's book, Speaking Peace. Rosenberg teachs non-violent communication.
Anyone like to discuss NVC in schools and Alfie Kohn's ideas?
Judging people does not help them.
"Alfie Kohn shows that while
manipulating people with incentives seems
to work in the short run, it is a strategy that
ultimately fails and even does lasting harm.
Our workplaces and classrooms will continue
to decline, he argues, until we begin to
question our reliance on a theory of motivation
derived from laboratory animals.
Drawing from hundreds of studies, Kohn
demonstrates that people actually do inferior
work when they are enticed with
money, grades, or other incentives. Programs
that use rewards to change people's
behavior are similarly ineffective over the
long run. Promising goodies to children for
good behavior can never produce anything
more than temporary obedience. In fact,
the more we use artificial inducements to
motivate people, the more they lose interest
in what we're bribing them to do. Rewards
turn play into work, and work into drudgery.
http://www.deming.ch/Alfie_Kohn/E_Reward.pdf
I first heard about Alfie Kohn from Marshall Rosenberg's book, Speaking Peace. Rosenberg teachs non-violent communication.
Anyone like to discuss NVC in schools and Alfie Kohn's ideas?