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Alfie Kohn, National Speaker and Author on Education - Students as the Center of Gravity
No full textThis week\u27s Podcast feature Alfie Kohn, national speaker and author of 14 books, and scores of articles, on human behavior, management, and education.
Alfie discusses the inspiration for his books including, No Contest and Punished by Rewards, the divergent thoughts surrounding the history of education in the 20th century, and his views on standardized testing and homework.
Alfie explains how, as a contrarian with a practice of finding issues where logic and research points in one direction and practices move in a different direction, he started thinking and writing about competition. He began debunking the common notion that competition is inevitable because it\u27s just part of human nature .
Next Alfie discusses the different philosophies on education in the early 20th century. As one side supported the experience of the student as the center of gravity , the other focused on rules, curriculum, numbers and behaviors - things outside the classroom that can be measured.
Alfie tells us how standardized testing has undermined education, even when test scores go up, and how much time has been taken away from real learning to teach kids how to be good at taking tests.
Lastly, Alfie shares what he will be talking about on November 8th, at The First Annual Deming in Education Conference in Seattle.https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/deming_podcast/1021/thumbnail.jp
Author Rights Workshop
No full textLearning material associated with Alexandra Kohn's presentation as a part of the ABC Copyright 2020 Fall Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Alberta Copyright Office
Teaching with Melvin Kohn
No full textMelvin L. Kohn is the author of well-known theory on the relationship between social class, work and personality, supported by sophisticated cross-national research. Kohn’s theory and research make a good example for the sociologists of how sociology should be done and cultivated. Here they are evaluated from the educational perspective
Picture from the rural life of Polish Jews
No full textU priči "Sličica iz seoskog života poljskih Židova" rabin dr Izrael Kohn opisuje jedno selo u Poljskoj 1914. godine koje imenuje kao B. Preko konkretnih opisa poznatih porodica, značajnih, uspešnih i skromnih i običnih stanovnika, tradicije i praznika, autor oslikava celokupan život poljskih Jevreja koji su živeli u ruralnoj sredini.In the story "A picture from the rural life of Polish Jews", Rabbi Dr. Israel Kohn describes a village in Poland in 1914, which he names B. Through concrete descriptions of famous families, significant, successful, and modest, and ordinary inhabitants, traditions, and holidays, the author presents the whole life of Polish Jews who lived in a rural environment.Izrael Kohn (1885-1941) došao je u Kraljevinu SHS iz Poljske kao školovani rabin sa doktoratom. Službovao je u koprivnici od 1924. do 1941. godine. U braku sa Linom rođ. Breier imao je tri kćeri - Fridu, Genu i kćerku nepoznatog imena, i sina Marka. Cela porodica je, sa ostalim koprivničkim Jevrejima, odvedena u noći između 23 i 24. jula 1941. godine u logor Gospić. Otac i sin stradali su u logoru Jasenovac, a ženski deo porodice u Aušvicu.Israel Kohn (1885-1941) came to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from Poland as an educated rabbi with a doctorate. He served in Koprivnica from 1924 to 1941. Married to Lina, born Breier had three daughters - Frida, Gena and a daughter of unknown name, and a son Mark. The whole family, together with other Jews from Koprivnica, were taken to the Gospić camp on the night between July 23 and 24, 1941. The father and son died in the Jasenovac camp and the female part of the family in Auschwitz
Je rêvais aussi en quelque sorte comme la forêt
No full textDans cet entretien inédit, l’anthropologue Eduardo Kohn, auteur de Comment pensent les forêts, revient sur le rôle que le rêve a joué dans l’élaboration de ce qu’il a appelé « l’anthropologie au-delà de l’humain » et du projet qu’il mène actuellement sur le psychédélisme. Il y aborde notamment la place qu’ont tenue les rêves – les siens et ceux de ses hôtes – dans son enquête de terrain, dans son enseignement universitaire et dans ses réflexions éthiques et politiques.In this previously unpublished interview, the anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, author of How Forests Think, looks back at the role that dreams have played in the development of what he has called “the anthropology beyond the human” and his current project on psychedelics. In particular, he discusses the role that dreams―his own and those of his hosts―have played in his fieldwork, in his university teaching, and in his ethical and political reflections
Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg and Sobolev type inequalities on stratified Lie groups
No full textIn this short paper, we establish a range of Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg and weighted Lp-Sobolev type inequalities on stratified Lie groups. All inequalities are obtained with sharp constants. Moreover, the equivalence of the Sobolev type inequality and Hardy inequality is shown in the L2-case. © 2017, The Author(s)
Morphotypes of Ciborinia camelliae Kohn infecting camellias in Italy
No full textCiborinia camelliae Kohn is the causal agent of camellia flower blight. The pathogen infects only flowers of camellias,
causing serious damage to the plant. Seventy-one strains were collected from six Italian regions and were characterized at
the phenotypic and genetic level. Morphotypes were identified based on their phenotypic differences in culture media. The
Italian population consisted of eleven morphotypes. Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of twenty-two isolates belonging
to the different morphotypes were sequenced. All morphotypes have identical ITS sequences. The closest match of the ITS
with the strain ICMP 19812 of Ciborinia camelliae from New Zealand (Massey University Arboretum, Palmerston North,
100% sequence identity), and the morphological features confirmed the presence of a variable population of C. camelliae
in six different Italian regions
Joint functional calculi and a sharp multiplier theorem for the Kohn Laplacian on spheres
No full textLet b be the Kohn Laplacian acting on (0; j)-forms on the unit sphere in Cn. In a recent paper of Casarino, Cowling, Sikora and the author, aspectral multiplier theorem of Mihlin{Hormander type for b is proved in the case 0 < j < n &#x100000; 1. Here we prove an analogous theorem in the exceptionalcases j = 0 and j = n &#x100000; 1, including a weak type (1; 1) endpoint estimate. We also show that both theorems are sharp. The proof hinges on an abstractmultivariate multiplier theorem for systems of commuting operators.<br/
A dynamic demand for medical care:
No full textI develop a theoretical model to explain observed patterns of medical care demand and test the hypothesis that demand is greater the greater the decline in health at any level of health. Medical care demand is highly skewed: the top 5% of individuals consume nearly 50% of expenditures, and nearly half of lifetime expenditures occur after age 65. Extant economic models don’t explain this behavior. For example, Murphy & Topel (2006) suggest the willingness to pay for health decreases with age and illness. Grossman (1972) concludes that we demand less health over time, and maintained assumptions about health transition make observed spikes in medical spending unlikely. Tomas Philipson (2007 iHEA plenary) suggested either consumers act irrationally or economists have not adequately modeled behavior. I explore the latter explanation.
I specify an optimal control model that extends the seminal Grossman (1972) model in three ways. I include the change in health in utility; I model depreciation as an amount rather than a rate; and I allow the health state to increase health production. Contrary to the Grossman model, the resulting demand for health suggests an inevitable disequilibrium as health declines between increasing benefits and declining costs of health capital that individuals can only balance by increasing medical care. The time path for medical care demand suggests the change in health rather than the state of health drives increasing demand and that price sensitivity declines over time.
I test the central hypothesis that the change in health is significant using the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). I specify a non-linear seemingly unrelated system of demands for consumption and medical care and impose symmetry restrictions on the cross-price parameters so that inferences are consistent with utility maximization theory. I identify instruments for unobservable health and price using a multiple correspondence analysis. I find support for the theory and the assumption that health and wealth are not separable. Results suggest single period, single equation models of medical care demand omit relevant variables that capture dynamic decision making and the relationship between health and wealth.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-148)by Jennifer Leigh Koh
Melvin Kohn, Ronald Inglehart en de verklaring van cultureel conservatisme. Een empirisch-theoretische kritiek
No full textBoth Kohn and Inglehart claim that the value one attaches to individual liberty can be explained from one\u27s economic position. According to Kohn, occupational self-direction entails a non-authoritarian outlook and according to Inglehart growing up under conditions of affluence leads to an appreciation of individual liberty and self-attainment (postmaterialism). Analysis of data from a representative sample from the Dutch population leads to a rejection of both hypotheses. It is demonstrated, first, that postmaterialism and authoritarianism can in fact both be conceived of as indicators of a more general concept of cultural conservatism. Second, neither can be explained from one\u27s economic position — be it occupational self-direction or parental affluence. Strongest postmaterialism and weakest authoritarianism/cultural conservatism are not found among certain economic categories, but among highly educated, culturally interested, non-religious young people. Theoretical implications for sociological debates about modernity and modernization are briefly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Mens en Maatschappij is the property of Amsterdam University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder\u27s express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
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