This book offers novel insights into how students can develop a personal growth mindset during their degree programs that allows them to view new challenges as opportunity to grow personally, reflect on the new knowledge and experience, and subsequently improve their skills to critically examine and evaluate information in a journey of personal growth. Based on learning theories drawn from cognitive and social psychology and over 12 years of integrating the ‘personal growth mindset’ into course design, it offers a novel framework that allows higher education teachers to constructively align learning objectives and assessments with crucial transferable skill development, and fostering a mindset for personal growth among students that focuses on continuously improving and reflecting on feedback. The objective is to empower academics to build courses and degree programs that are ‘fit for purpose’ by equipping social science students with the skills and mindsets that will benefit them throughout their careers in ever changing and newly emerging jobs. The book will appeal to those who are interested in how individuals learn in educational settings and in the wider workplace.
1. Introduction.- Part I: The Big Picture of Learning Theories and Course Design.-
2. Learning Theory: The Power of Yet and Dreaming Big.-
3. Constructive Alignment in Course and Degree Design.- Part II: Teaching Activities to Develop a Growth Mindset in Students for Face-to-Face and Online/Distance Teaching.-
4. Lectures.-
5. Study Groups.-
6. Seminars and Lab Activities.-
7. Simulations.-
8. Supervising Dissertations.-
9. Conclusion.
Katharina Rietig is Professor of Sustainability and International Politics at Newcastle University, UK.
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