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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.
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- The failure project: self-efficacy, mindset, grit and navigating perceived failures in design and the arts
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- Workmon Larsen, Megan (Author)
- Kulinna, Pamela (Thesis advisor)
- Henriksen, Danah (Committee member)
- Heywood, William (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2018
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- thesisPartial requirement for: Ed.D., Arizona State University, 2018
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 179-192)
- Field of study: Educational leadership and policy studies
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by Megan Workmon Larsen