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Daring Greatly - Implementing Failure Skills In The Learning Process, Megan K. Timm
Daring Greatly - Implementing Failure Skills In The Learning Process, Megan K. Timm
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Failure plays an unavoidable role in the life of everyone. From the most mastered professionals to the toddler taking his first steps, everyone will experience failure at one point or another. In the educational setting, both educators and students will have failure experiences, and will undergo the consequences of that experience, whether positive or negative. This literature review will summarize fields of research that highlight both the negative and positive consequences of experiencing failure and will also introduce “failure skills,” which is defined as the key to producing positive consequences from experiencing failure. Examples of the “failure skills” are: Grit, …
Failing Forward: How Student Failure Builds A Framework For Lifelong Learning, Andrew R. Kurkowski
Failing Forward: How Student Failure Builds A Framework For Lifelong Learning, Andrew R. Kurkowski
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Humans have been dealing with the issue of failure since their existence. No matter the field, whether it be business, athletics, science, mathematics, etc., students and professionals are going to experience minor and major failures in their pursuits. Some may say that the main goal of the educator is to encourage students to pursue lifelong learning. With this being the case, one question that this paper aims to address is how to teach students use these inevitable life events as tools for growth in the academic environment and whether this mindset is effective in accomplishing the development of lifelong learning …