This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
Alfie Kohn's Beyond Discipline:From Compliance to Conformity critiques the notions of "classroom management" and "classroom discipline" and offers instead a vision of a democratic, collaborative classroom culture and society at large. How, though, can we put this into practice in our own classrooms and in our everyday lives? This study group will explore this questions through a reading of Kohn's book and the analysis and application of it to our own practice and experiences.
So, let's start this Study Group by having everyone order or obtain a copy of Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community (10th anniversary edition, 2006):
Order online: http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Discipline-Compliance-Alfie-Kohn/dp/1416604723
Or find in your local library: http://www.worldcat.org/title/beyond-discipline-from-compliance-to-community/oclc/70054175&referer=brief_results
There's also a first edition available (1996), which is essentially the same without the afterword and may be cheaper.
While people are searching for the book, let's start by reading his article by the same name from is website, Beyond Discipline, which introduces some of the ideas that the book will cover:
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/discipline.htm
As you read the article, post your thoughts on the task here, and as this task is marked as editable--feel free to edit the task itself if you have ideas for improving it.
Is there any copies or chapters freely available online?
Course materials need to be free in P2PU courses. Technically a library could have a copy - however what happens if a participant can't get a hold of a copy freely?
I have an extra copy and would be happy to send it to someone if they can't find it in the library.
Also, the worldcat link allows you to put in your zipcode and find out which libraries in your area carry it.
I saw the first 32 pages online at google books... I researched book trading sites, but unfortunately none of them had this book in stock. Maybe the book trading concept is the right idea here, though. I have a couple of copies of the book already, and I'd be happy to send my copies to anyone who couldn't obtain it from their library, and they could pass it on to someone else in the study group after they were finished, so we'd have some copies of the book circulating around.
Perhaps, too, as we go along we could develop some open-content study guides on the material, and then in future offerings the discussion could be primarily from the study guide rather than the book itself...? The study guide could include examples derived from the discussion, so that we'd be creating kind of a knowledge base about the concepts based on what we discussed.
