Albert Bandura

Should we teach ‘confidence classes’?

The Confident Teacher / / 4 minutes of reading

(Image sourced from Flickr and courtesy of City of York Council)   “It [Confidence] is the single most important attribute any child can have. I truly wish there were classes to focus on it…With confidence comes personality. With personality comes a form of charm, wit and wisdom. These can camouflage any shortcomings in the academic […]

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The Indefatigability of Hope

The Confident Teacher / / 4 minutes of reading

(Image sourced form the excellent http://art.zerflin.com) Barack Obama famously wrote about the ‘audacity of hope‘. Unfortunately, such audacity was always likely to be quashed under the crushing weight of partisan politics. Is it so that hope is therefore an impractical approach to the realities of our work-a-day life? Hope is most often associated with naïveté –

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