An individual’s capacity to learn is constantly changing, and is affected by a wide range of personal self-perceptions: Stanford Professor Carol Dweck, in her book ‘Mindset’, powerfully argues that a learner with a fixed mindset, believing their intelligence is limited, and a product of brains and talent, rather than effort, will learn less well than a learner with a growth mindset who recognises their own potential, and capacity for improvement. How we think we learn – in the jargon, our ‘meta-cognitive’ capacity to know ourselves as learners – has a crucial bearing upon how we actually
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