Interesting article by Carol Dweck:

Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset’
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html
 
<http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html>

She too is unhappy with how the “mindset” idea has too often been misused - 
even to the extent of “blaming the victim”).  I admire her forthrightness here:

"Maybe we originally put too much emphasis on sheer effort. Maybe we made the 
development of a growth mindset sound too easy. Maybe we talked too much about 
people having one mindset or the other, rather than portraying people as 
mixtures."

I’d love to hear from more researchers who wrote about their theories and then 
reflected on where they think maybe they went a little wrong.  It would show 
students that researchers are human and theories aren’t written in stone.

Michael

Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
http://www.ThePsychFiles.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepsychfiles/
Twitter: mbritt








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