Alfie Kohn: Rethinking Homework - Teachers.Net Gazette.
Alfie Kohn does extensive review of the research performed throughout the 2oth century regarding the effectiveness of homework and makes a very viable argument that it has very little value, especially for elementary school children.
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL Winter 2007 Changing the Homework Default By Alfie Kohn The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids.
After reviewing just about all the available scientific studies on homework over the last 40 years and examining the underlining presumptions of the need for homework Kohn makes it abundantly clear Alfie Kohn finally puts the value of homework and importance for children's development in its proper category: urban legend!
Alfie Kohn (born October 15, 1957) is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior.He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research.
We should promote the intrinsic value of education ideas, rather than justifications tied to external outcomes, advises Alfie Kohn. (September 30, 2015) Dispelling the Myth of Deferred Gratification.
The debate over whether schools should set homework has resurfaced with the imminent publication of a book by the American academic Alfie Kohn, which suggests that homework turns children off.
Alfie Kohn, a leading US academic, has said that too much study after school turns young children off education, sparking a huge transatlantic debate about whether homework for primary school children.