Five years ago, I read Switch: How to change things when change is hard. It reshaped my understanding of how people behave, and how I, as a teacher, might influence their behaviour.
My understanding of behaviour had been naive…
My training had made it clear that behaviourism was a bad thing: this approach, which dominated psychology in the early twentieth century, suggested that we do more of what we’re rewarded to do, and less of what we’re punished for doing. In an early university assignment, I acknowledged that I might, occasionally, be forced to stoop to behaviourist techniques;…
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