The PDC's "Reading about Teaching" book discussions focus on teaching, learning and educational issues. Our selections touch upon a variety of topics, including innovating teaching techniques, learning processes, and changes in higher education. If there is a book you would like to recommend as a future reading, please email pdc-grp@fredonia.edu.
Fall 2016 Book Selections:
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
"Mindset is 'an established set of attitudes held by someone,' says the Oxford American Dictionary. It turns out, however, that a set of attitudes needn't be so set, according to Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford. Dweck proposes that everyone has either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities as... well, fixed. In other words, you are who you are, your intelligence and talents are fixed, and your fate is to go through life avoiding challenge and failure. A growth mindset, on the other hand, is one in which you see yourself as fluid, a work in progress. Your fate is one of growth and opportunity. Which mindset do you possess? Dweck provides a checklist to assess yourself and shows how a particular mindset can affect all areas of your life, from business to sports and love. The good news, says Dweck, is that mindsets are not set: at any time, you can learn to use a growth mindset to achieve success and happiness. This is a serious, practical book. Dweck's overall assertion that rigid thinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a change of mind is always possible, is welcome." From Publishers Weekly
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