Beyond Discipline

Author: Alfie Kohn
Edition: 1St Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0871202700

Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

What is most remarkable about the assortment of discipline programs on the market today is the number of fundamental assumptions they seem to share. Download Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Some may advocate the use of carrots rather than sticks; some may refer to punishments as "logical consequences." But virtually all take for granted that the teacher must be in control of the classroom, and that what we need are strategies to get students to comply with the adult's expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alfie Kohn calls these premises into question, and with them the very idea of classroom "management." He questions the assumption that problems in the classroom are always the fault of students who don't do what they are told, suggesting that we might instead re Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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