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Tag: Mindset

Scottish Learning Festival 2009

Another really great SLF. It felt  really strange just walking around meeting people and enjoying the event without having any responsibilities.
I ended up spending a lot of time catching-up with old friends and former colleagues and for a change was not dashing off to chair a session or attend a launch.
Apart from the very important [...]

Book: Carol Dweck’s Mindset

Just finished reading Carol Dweck’s ‘Mindset – The New Psychology of Success’.
I think this is an important book for anyone involved in education and very worthwhile for the general reader. Her theory is that there are two basic ways of looking at the world – or ‘mindsets’. One is a ‘fixed mindset’ in which intelligence, [...]