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"A prominent and esteemed critic challenges widely held beliefs about children and parenting, revealing that underlying each myth is a deeply conservative ideology that is, ironically, often adopted by liberal parents. Somehow a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children--what they're like and how they should be raised--have congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society. Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. Young people, meanwhile, are routinely described as entitled and narcissistic. With the same lively, contrarian style that characterizes all of his influential work, Alfie Kohn systematically debunks these beliefs--not only challenging erroneous factual claims but also exposing the troubling ideology that underlies them. Relying on new research and a vast collection of social science data, as well as on logic and humor, he challenges popular parenting myths and argues that, in fact, the major threat to healthy child development is parenting that is too controlling rather than too indulgent"--

No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers.

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[Response] The conventional wisdom among compensation specialists is to throw money and other rewards at employees in order to motivate them and make them work harder. But numerous studies have shown that, in the workplace, money ranks far behind such factors as challenging work or interesting people to work with. Furthermore, there are no controlled scientific studies that have found a long-term enhancement of the quality of work as a result of any monetary or other reward system. In fact, the more rewards are used to "motivate" people, the more people lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the rewards. Money itself is not the problem, but using money to get people to jump through hoops, is. And a preoccupation with money can distract the compensation specialist from attending to what's really important in moving an organization forward-meeting employees' needs for relatedness, competence, and autonomy.

Der bekannte amerikanische Erziehungsexperte versucht mit traditionellen, reaktionären Erziehungsmethoden aufzuräumen, wie "Helikopter-Erziehung" oder "Lob der Disziplin". In einem früheren Titel hatte er auch für eine Erziehung ohne Belohnung und Bestrafung plädiert (vgl. A. Kohn: "Liebe und Eigenständigkeit", ID-A 7/11). Der oft als "Erziehungsrebell" bezeichnete Autor wirft seinen Ratgeber-Kollegen eine verzerrte und unwissenschaftliche Darstellung entsprechender Forschungsergebnisse vor. Anhand vieler Zitate aus wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen und Literaturhinweisen nimmt er sogenannte Erziehungsmythen aufs Korn und stellt im letzten Kapitel eine "Erziehung zur sanften Rebellion" vor. (3)