We have talked about how we imagine children through the lessons we feel they need to learn. In this episode, we’re thinking about another part of the schooling process—how to get children to do the work we’ve decided it’s important for them to do, whatever it is! Systems for motivating children reveal what adults think children want. What children do within those systems sometimes tells us something quite different. . .  

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