The Failure Project: Self-Efficacy, Mindset, Grit and Navigating Perceived Failures in Design and the Arts

• Other Authors: Workmon Larsen, Megan (Author)
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Education; Educational administration; arts; college; design; higher education; intervention course; mindfulness
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.49095

abstract: Artists and designers are preparing for rapidly changing and competitive careers in creative fields that require a healthy dose of resiliency to persevere. However, little is known on how students within these fields become more self-efficacious, gritty, situated toward a growth mindset, and persistent over time. This mixed-method action research study investigates how undergraduate arts and design college students approach and navigate perceptions of failure as well as incorporates an intervention course designed to increase their self-efficacy, growth mindset, and academic persistence. Participants were eighteen arts and design students representing a variety of disciplines from an eight-week, one-unit, 300-level course that utilized arts-based methods, mindfulness, and active reflection. After the course, students had significant changes in their self-efficacy and academic persistence as well as moderate significant change in their fixed mindset. === Dissertation/Thesis === Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2018