Major Education Award in China Goes to an American Professor (Who Wins Nearly $4 Million)
December 21, 2017
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: The Washington Post
A multimillion dollar education award launched in China has named one of its first winners: an American. A Stanford University professor was named co-winner for her groundbreaking research in student motivation and into how to help young people cultivate success — and she took the occasion to call for more “heart” in the learning process.
Carol Dweck, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford, recently accepted the Yidan Prize in Hong Kong, where she spoke out in favor of an education process that is counter to the intense, standardized test- and cramming-based school culture in China. In her acceptance speech, she said:
“Let us put that heart-mind back into education…