No contest: the case against competition
Kohn, Alfie
No contest: the case against competition Kohn, Alfie - Revised edition - Boston Houghton Mifflin Co. 1992 - ix, 324 p.
Contending that competition in all areasschool, family, sports and businessis destructive, and that success so achieved is at the expense of another's failure, Kohn, a correspondent for USA Today, advocates a restructuring of our institutions to replace competition with cooperation. He persuasively demonstrates how the ingrained American myth that competition is the only normal and desirable way of life from Little Leagues to the presidency is counterproductive, personally and for the national economy, and how psychologically it poisons relationships, fosters anxiety and takes the fun out of work and play. He charges that competition is a learned phenomenon and denies that it builds character and self-esteem. Kohn's measures to encourage cooperation in lieu of competition include promoting noncompetitive games, eliminating scholastic grades and substitution of mutual security for national security. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information
9780395631256
Competition (Psychology)
Cooperativeness
Aggressiveness (Psychology)
Social interaction - United States
302.14
No contest: the case against competition Kohn, Alfie - Revised edition - Boston Houghton Mifflin Co. 1992 - ix, 324 p.
Contending that competition in all areasschool, family, sports and businessis destructive, and that success so achieved is at the expense of another's failure, Kohn, a correspondent for USA Today, advocates a restructuring of our institutions to replace competition with cooperation. He persuasively demonstrates how the ingrained American myth that competition is the only normal and desirable way of life from Little Leagues to the presidency is counterproductive, personally and for the national economy, and how psychologically it poisons relationships, fosters anxiety and takes the fun out of work and play. He charges that competition is a learned phenomenon and denies that it builds character and self-esteem. Kohn's measures to encourage cooperation in lieu of competition include promoting noncompetitive games, eliminating scholastic grades and substitution of mutual security for national security. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information
9780395631256
Competition (Psychology)
Cooperativeness
Aggressiveness (Psychology)
Social interaction - United States
302.14