Alfie Kohn - Children and altruism

Children and altruism: is generosity and the desire to help people innate or is it only triggered by a desire to receive a reward? Alfie Kohn, author of "Punished by reward", outlines several studies that tend to demonstrate that altruism and empathy - the capacity for feeling distress when we hear that someone else is in distress - is a part of our fundamental nature, and that children can be encouraged to develop this trait.

Extract from the conference "Teaching children to care" by Alfie Kohn at the CTA Encompass conference, Heritage Woods Secondary School, Port Woody in 2007.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Parenting
• education
• altruism
• child rearing

[turtle0038]

If Kohn were the US Secretary of Education we would all benefit.

[artfromdheart]

This man is a genius! I love him! And this is the 2nd video i see of him :D

[matmohair1]

he should be the president

[Drewboy64]

i love alfie kohn