PEDAGOGY
INSTILLING
GRIT Karl Pupé asks how, as educators, can we introduce ‘grit’ to our classrooms? By By Karl Karl Pupé Pupé
WHAT WHAT IS IS ‘GRIT?’ ‘GRIT?’ The The word word ‘grit’ ‘grit’ has has almost almost become become aa cliché. cliché. In In these these turbulent turbulent times, times, we we hear hear from from politicians politicians and and leaders leaders that that we we must must be be ‘grittier.’ ‘grittier.’ But But what what does does that that mean? mean? Professor Professor Angela Angela Duckworth, Duckworth, psychologist psychologist && leading leading expert expert in in Human Human Resilience, Resilience, asked asked the the question question of of what what traits traits separated separated the the top top athletes, athletes, musicians, musicians, entrepreneurs entrepreneurs and and other other leaders leaders in in their their fifields, elds, from from the the rest rest of of society. society. After After extensive extensive research, research, her her studies studies found found that that the the people people who who were were at at the the top top of of their their professions professions were were not not only only uber-talented uber-talented but but possessed possessed aa particular particular character character trait trait which which she she termed termed ‘grit.’ ‘grit.’
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