Getting a good education for everybody – the equity question – is not just about bricks and mortar, or equal facilities and equal resources but about beliefs, writes Carol S. Dweck.
This was the title of a recent article in the Times Educational Supplement, written by leading neuroscientist Steven Rose, emeritus professor at the Open University. (1) You will guess that, with our commitment to the growth mindset, all of us here at Study Skills Zone were interested to read this article. And it then seemed only fair that we should prepare a Briefing for all our readers.
A ‘fixed mindset’ is one that says: “My abilities are carved in stone”. This belief creates an urgency to prove yourself – over and over! A ‘growth mindset’ however is based on a belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate and grow, through your own efforts ...
Many people think of our brain as a mystery – it is hidden from sight and therefore we cannot properly understand it. In the same way, many of us don’t really know much about intelligence – what it is and how it works ...
We all know that to teach something well, we need to learn it properly first. If we then teach it to somebody else, we end up learning it really well ourselves.