Re: Coercion

Eugene Matusov (ematusov who-is-at cats.ucsc.edu)
Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:36:23 -0700

Hi Russ--

Thanks for your point and for the reference!

Eugene Matusov
At 03:57 PM 4/19/96 AST, Russ Hunt wrote:
>Jay says,
>
>> I believe our present system of schooling is excessively coercive
>> (though often in rather baroquely indirect ways), and that this
>> coercion is mainly a means of imposing certain adult views and
>> interests on the younger humans of our community. I believe its
>> justification requires such an incredible apparatus of
>> rationalizations that the resulting belief system about "children"
>> and schooling makes it very difficult for us to solve any of our
>> educational problems as a community.
>
>Yes.
>
>Alfie Kohn has made a strong argument that there's really not much
>difference between rewards and punishments: do not "gold stars,
>incentive plans, praise, and other bribes" also count as (a
>baroquely indirect form of) coercion?
>
>There's an extremely interesting series of articles on extrinsic and
>intrinsic "motivators" (or, perhaps, forms of coercion) in the
>_Review of Educational Research_ that arrived today.
>
> -- Russ
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Eugene Matusov
UC Santa Cruz