KQED News Mind/Shift – Katrina Schwartz
“It’s hard to be connected to the education field today and not have heard about Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindset. The Stanford psychologist has spent her career researching how adult messages impact the way kids think about their abilities. Working to teach a growth mindset has now become popular in schools, with teachers across the country working to praise students’ process, not their product and to celebrate productive failure. Still, as with any education theory that catches on like wildfire, there are those who believe changing student mindsets isn’t the panacea it has been made out to be.”(more)