Carol Dweck
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Boosterism alert: relentless positivity alone will not achieve results
- Work
- August 4, 2019, 16:28
Three cheers for positive thinking! The evidence suggests instilling what the psychologists call “positive affect” has a variety of knock-on benefits.(...)

Go figure: Why maths doesn’t add up for so many of us
- Education
- April 9, 2019, 00:00
For many of us it’s a badge of honour to declare: “I’m terrible at maths. I just don’t have the brain for it.” Yet, says Dr Pádraig Kirwan, head of W(...)

Wade Gilbert finds Irish rugby ‘really curious about learning’
- Rugby
- October 18, 2018, 07:00
Dr Wade Gilbert, an internationally renowned coaching consultant, sport scientist, award-winning professor in the department of kinesiology at Califor(...)

How to future-proof your child
- Education
- September 4, 2018, 00:00
Every parent wants the best for their child, and most of today’s parents grew up with the unspoken but widely accepted notion that their children woul(...)

Process of elimination: When I grow up, I don’t want to be . . .
- Education
- December 14, 2017, 16:56
Career guidance teachers have all sorts of tools and techniques to help young people figure out what they want to do after college. But what about sta(...)

So you think you’re bad at maths? Think again
- Culture
- October 18, 2016, 01:01
From a young age, people develop perceptions about their own intelligence and what they are “good” and “bad” at. In a competitive school environment,(...)

Learning through failure: Can we teach children to be smarter?
- Education
- November 10, 2015, 10:00
One of the best aspects of being a teacher is that I have never stopped learning. Last year I had the opportunity to put a theory of learning to th(...)