The Competitive Ethos and Democratic Education

by John G. Nicholls

Book Overview

Young children and even infants work hard at mastering various kills and show spontaneous pleasure at their own accomplishment. John Nicholls explores the conditions that cause students to lose their unselfconscious involvement in a game or task and become concerned with how they are stacking up against others. Charting the development of children's concepts of luck, effort, and ability, he argues that with age they are increasingly prone to take...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674154177
• ISBN13: 9780674154179
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"