What Carol Dweck thinks about behavioural science
Psychologist at Stanford University, where she holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology; known for research on motivation and mindset and the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
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3 dated positions, 2015, in their own words. Our reading of what Carol Dweck has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsLet’s acknowledge that (1) we’re all a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets, (2) we will probably always be, and (3) if we want to move closer to a growth mindset in our thoughts and practices, we need to stay in touch with our fixed-mindset thoughts and deeds.
↗Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week)edweek.org 6th of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsIf we “ban” the fixed mindset, we will surely create false growth-mindsets. (By the way, I also fear that if we use mindset measures for accountability, we will create false growth mindsets on an unprecedented scale.)
↗Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week)edweek.org 7th of 8 in this piece
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Our readingThe growth-mindset message may have stressed effort too much and made change sound too easy
Their wordsMaybe we originally put too much emphasis on sheer effort. Maybe we made the development of a growth mindset sound too easy.
↗Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week)edweek.org 8th of 8 in this piece