Professionally, Kohn is difficult to define. He has been a researcher, a teacher, a journalist and even a stand-up comic and satiric songwriter. As an undergraduate at Brown, he created his own interdisciplinary major, which he dubbed normativism, and wrote a lengthy thesis on the idea of value judgment. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he did another interdisciplinary thesis on humor.
Who is Alfie Kohn? (continued)
Alfie Kohn is hard to describe in a concise way. He’s controversial and has many fans and at least as many detractors.
His research focuses on many areas but, in a nutshell, asks us to abandon traditional ways of learning and embrace alternate methods that allow students to stay interested and excited about gaining knowledge.