Essays on Dweck

It would be challenging to argue that the primary responsibility of the teacher is to teach while learners take the responsibility of learning. This neat separation has enabled teachers, particularly those in traditional would give priority to teaching a program where engagement was often of little concern. I have always believed that learners need to be motivated to grow into better citizens in a similar way that they are projected to attain appropriate levels of mastery in various disciplines. However, I learnt that commitment to care, necessities an approach to standards which encompasses the social cognitive development of learners ( ...

Dweck conducted several studies to find how different types of praise influence children of school age. Dweck used experimental method to conduct the serial of studies of the effect of different types of praise. The author tried to find how praise for intelligence and praise for efforts (independent variables) influence children`s reactions to failure, their goals in a working on a task (dependent variables), etc. (Bronson, 2007). In the first study, participants of the experiment were randomly divided into several groups. The one group of children was praised for their hard work while children from second experimental group ...

The hallmark of human development and socialization is the development of the self. According to Charles Horton Cooley, the development of the 'self' starts by identifying the “I” or “me” of an individual and that is the perception of a person about themselves whether consciously or subconsciously as well as how they think others see them (Newman & Newman, 2015). People get to realize the self through their interaction with their social and 'non- social' environments. Personal identity is also achievable only through the realization of a person’s distinctive personality, but this is said to be a tedious life ...