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An edition of No contest (1986)

No contest

the case against competition

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Competition may be as American as apple pie, but social scientist Alfie Kohn argues that our struggle to defeat one another--at work, at school, at play, and at home--turns all of us into losers. Contrary to the myths with which we have been raised, Kohn shows that competition is not an inevitable part of human nature. It does not motivate us to do our best. Rather than building character, competition sabotages self-esteem and ruins relationships. Kohn argues that we need to restructure our institutions so that one person's success does not depend on another's failure. For this revised edition, he adds a detailed account of how students can learn more effectively by working cooperatively in the classroom instead of struggling to be Number One.--From publisher description.

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Aggressiveness Aggressiveness (Psychology) Competition (Psychology) Cooperativeness Social interaction Coopération (Psychologie) Compétition (Psychologie) Interaction sociale Agressivité Management Productivity Psychology Economics Cooperative Behavior Interaktion Conflict management Interpersonal relations Wettbewerbsverhalten Competition Competitive Behavior Psychologie Kooperatives Verhalten Aggression Competetive Behavior

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Cover of: No Contest
No Contest: The Case Against Competition
2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
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No Contest: The Case Against Competition
2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
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No contest: the case against competition
1992, Houghton Mifflin
in English - Rev. ed.
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No Contest: The Case Against Competition
1992, HarperCollins Publishers, HarperOne, Houghton Mifflin
in English
Cover of: No contest
No contest: the case against competition
1992, Houghton Mifflin
in English - Rev. ed.
Cover of: No Contest
No Contest: The Case Against Competition
October 1987, Houghton Mifflin Company
in English
Cover of: No contest
No contest: the case against competition
1986, Houghton Mifflin
in English
Cover of: No contest
No contest: the case against competition
1986, Houghton Mifflin
in English

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Includes bibliography and index.

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Boston, MA

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viii,257p. ;
Number of pages
257

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OL21365864M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780395453940
ISBN 10
0395453941
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301413
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OL1908440W

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"Life for us has become an endless succession of contests."

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