He believes in a constructivist account of learning in which the learner is seen as actively making meaning rather than absorbing information, and he argues that knowledge should be taught "in a context and for a purpose." He has written that learning should be organized around "problems, projects, and questions – ...

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and hundreds of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.

North German (also Köhn): from the personal name Kohn or Köhn, old Low German short forms of Konrad . North German (Köhn): habitational name from a place called Köhn in Schleswig-Holstein.

Kohn, the father of two grown children, lives (actually) in the Boston area and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.