Growth Mindset Readings 2017

Link to more of Duckworth http://angeladuckworth.com/publications/  I have not been able to
locate original article the info below  came from Sparks. S. D. "Scholars: Better Gauges Needed for
'Mindset,' 'Grit'; Scholars note flaws in current methods." Education Week, 20 Apr. 2016, p. 6.
Academic OneFile,

	Duckworth in Scholars: Better Gauges needed for Mindset, Grit: Scholars note flaws in current methods.	Maori Achievement Set 2 2009 pg 43--50	BES CASES Establish culturally responsive relationships with students to reduce educational disparities and raise achievement Case no 7	Being maori: culturally relevant assessment in early childhood education L Rameka	Barnes: What Pākeha can learn from engaging in Kaupapa Māori educational research
Main idea A Concept of Tuakana Teina	Students who acted as mentors to other students(younger) persisted on math tasks longer after the ‘grit’ intervention. This effect was strongest for students who were low performing in maths	Managing self rangatiratanga Whanaungatanga Taking responsibility for, and control of one’s own learning, whereby individual agency is acorded by belonging to a group	http://tekotahitanga.tki.org.nz/		Multiple identities (ethnic/gender/class/sexuality/disability) travel with us at all times Monocultural identities were unsettled by working with maori at a deeper level on educational issues Pakeha privilege - choices
Main idea B Psychology is western discipline		Western paradigm of thinking. Important to check it fits Maori    Te Pikinga ki Runga assessment and planning framework to guide us Whanau at the core they need to guide decision making tataritanga For maori belonging to a group very important. Having a commitment to supporting the group important Pg 47 Whaiwahitanga: attaining a sense of space & place as Maori To participate and contribute	Idea of culturally responsive pedagogy suggested that this will be accomplished when educators create learning contexts within their classroom; where power is shared between self-determining individuals within non-dominating relations of interdependence; where culture counts There is research findings that showed increased achievement When teachers had PD in the ETP and te kotahitanga principles	Whakapapa establishes personal and collective identities and connectedness. It is at the core of what it means to be Maori and it functions as an epistemological template as a fundamental form of knowing (pg 248)	The communicative space of Maori and Non-Maori working on educational research is complex and unique More research needed to affirm and push edcuational aspirations for the future
Main idea C Growth mindset links		Protecting and enhancing self concept of children imp Focus on potential Maori who are more secure in their self concept have higher aspirations/achievement	Low achievement of Maori often attributed to teachers fixed mindsets - deficit theories Some teachers respond by giving students  work with a low level of challenge Teachers had to change mindset and take on the challenge of raising Maori Achievement by taking action (not making fixed M S excuses)	Need to build the  Mauri of each child in our care, do we do things to damage it in a small way each day? Mauri--spark of life, an attribute of the self. Important to nurture and respect this to keep it in a healthy state of balance.(pg 249)