Kohn's Zone

Kohn's Zone

Hosted by Alfie Kohn · Alfie Kohn

4.9from 53 ratings

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31Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
33
Episodes
10
Transcribed
53
Ratings
Bi-weekly
Cadence
2025
First episode

About Kohn's Zone

Over more than a third of a century, Alfie Kohn has offered a multifaceted defense of progressive education as well as research-based critiques of rewards and punishments, grades, standardized testing, homework, competition, and other aspects of traditional schooling (and parenting). Each episode of Kohn’s Zone will offer 20-30 minutes of provocative reflections on a topic having to do with teaching and learning — or with human behavior more generally; occasional longer segments will feature conversations with leading experts in education. Watch this space for new episodes, which will appear as if by magic every two weeks or so. You can listen here, or, better yet, on the podcast’s home, AlfieKohn.org/podcasts, which offers other resources. And to support us, please visit https://coff.ee/kohnszone. PRODUCTION SUPPORT: Ultraviolet Audio. ART: Abi Kohn.

Publisher
Alfie Kohn
Category
kids & family · science
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
1 Jul 2025
Latest episode
15 Oct 2026
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Latest episodes

10 of 33 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Aggressive Nostalgia

  2. 1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools

  3. 15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Caution: Contents Under Pressure

Inside a recent episode

Aggressive Nostalgia

Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's also that People used to be smarter. People used to be nicer, more ethical. Works of art were of higher quality. Parents were more skilled. And kids promptly did what they were told, assuming that's a good thing. Let's take morality for a moment. So two psychologists, Adam Mastroianni and Daniel Gilbert, wrote an article in Nature magazine in 2023. that reflected their analysis of a huge international database. And they concluded, quote, people all over the world believe that morality has declined. And they have believed this for as long as researchers have been asking them about it, unquote. […]

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Who has been a guest on Kohn's Zone

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  • Harry Feder
  • Catherine Compton-Lilly
  • George Wood

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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.9 / 5
36 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

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28
Social presence
0
YouTube
0
Engagement
85

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