Porterfield Mindset Matters

The Power of College to Activate Lifelong Growth
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4214-4929-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

How colleges can foster growth mindsets among students—and why this approach matters.

We live in an era of escalating, tech-fueled change. Our jobs and the skills we need to work and thrive are constantly evolving, and those who can't keep up risk falling behind. That's where college comes in. In Mindset Matters, Daniel R. Porterfield advances a powerful new argument about the value of residential undergraduate education and its role in developing growth mindsets among students.

The growth mindset, according to Porterfield, is the belief that we can enhance our core qualities or talents through our efforts, strategies, and education, and with assistance from others. People with growth mindsets have faith in self-improvement. They tend to be goal oriented and optimistic, confident that they can master new challenges because they've done so in the past. Feedback is their friend, errors their opportunities to begin again. For students like this, college is a multiyear process of self-creation and self-emergence, a becoming that unfolds because they are applying themselves in a place rich with stimulating people, happenings, resources, and ideas.

America's colleges and universities help students build the skills and self-confidence they need for lifelong discovery, creativity, mentorship, teamwork, and striving. These five mindsets, the book argues, are critical for thriving in disruptive times, and students who develop them will reap the rewards long after they graduate. To show how college activates these mindsets and why it matters, Porterfield shares the personal stories of thirty recent graduates—many the first in their families to attend college. Their growth was both self-powered and supported by involved faculty, engaged peers, and opportunity-rich campuses. Porterfield also outlines how colleges and universities can do more to foster cultures of mentoring and personalized learning that help students become leaders of their own learning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porterfield, Daniel R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. The Mindset for Discovery
2. The Mindset for Creation
3. The Mindset for Mentorship
4. The Mindset for Collaboration
5. The Mindset for Striving
6. Growth Mindsets, Social Good, and Human Flourishing
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Porterfield, Daniel R.
Daniel R. Porterfield is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He served as President of Franklin & Marshall College from 2011–2018 and was recognized as an Obama White House Champion of Change.

Daniel R. Porterfield is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He served as the president of Franklin & Marshall College from 2011–2018, during which time he was recognized as an Obama White House Champion of Change.