Essentialist beliefs and school governance

Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (4):338-349 (2021)
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This article examines two issues related to essentialist beliefs, autonomy and education. The first issue concerns the conceptualization of the role of essentialist beliefs about selfhood in the development of a continually transformative relationship with oneself. We argue that Carol Dweck’s understanding of the regular causality of implicit beliefs about selfhood is too narrow, and that these beliefs are better understood as taking part in a complex relationship of belief. The second issue concerns the way that certain governmental aspects of educational institutions might affect schools’ capacity to help students develop a healthy belief relationship with regard to identity essentialism. Our hypothesis is that further investment in teachers’ professional authority and attentional autonomy, which involves the creation of normative gaps, among other conditions, constitutes a key lever for creating schools in which non-essentialist beliefs are embodied, rather than explained or inculcated.

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4 Self-Theories: The Construction of Free Will.Carol S. Dweck & Daniel C. Molden - 2008 - In John Baer, James C. Kaufman & Roy F. Baumeister, Are we free?: psychology and free will. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 44.

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