Carol Dweck: 'The whole idea of growth mindset is to say yes they can' | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Carol Dweck is education’s guru of the moment. The US academic’s “growth mindset” theory has taken schools on both sides of the Atlantic by storm. When TES met the Stanford University psychology professor at the Festival of Education at Wellington College last week, the mere mention of her name was sending teachers into shivers of excitement.  But the woman herself is refreshingly modest about the success of her philosophy. “You never know how influential your idea is going to be,” she says, smi