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Doha: B4Development (B4D) — a Qatar 2022 legacy project launched by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) – hosted its latest Legacy Majlis event in collaboration with Qatar Foundation at Al Bidda Tower. The event, which is part of a series of community of practice meetings which focus on behavioural economics, was attended by educators and policy makers who discussed the nurturing of a growth mindset in education.
The session featured keynote speaker Ammaarah Martinus, Senior Programme Officer at the Unesco Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP). The institute advocates for social and emotional skills to be mainstreamed into education systems to transform education and shape a future that is geared towards providing peace and human flourishing. Ammaarah's research focused on two main mindsets that drive the perceptions of a person's abilities, talents, intelligence and skills, including a fixed and growth mindset.
For example, those with a fixed mindset believe that people are born with a specific degree of intelligence and talent, while those with a growth mindset believe that intelligence, talents and abilities can be further developed and improved through practice and hard work. Often, those with a growth mindset are more passionate about learning and more resilient to failure.
Some of the key participants in the session included Dr. Leslie Alexander Pal, Founding Dean at Hamad Bin Khalifa University's College of Public Policy; Salah Khaled, Director of the Doha Office for Gulf States and Yemen, and the Unesco Representative to Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen; Natra Abdulla, Founder and CEO of Artan Holding; Dr. Nader Kabbani, Director of Research and Senior Fellow, the Middle East Council on Global Affairs; Mashail Al Naimi, Head of Programs at Qatar Foundation; Sumaya Baqavi, Deputy Chief of Mission & Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Singapore to Qatar, and the B4D and Generation Amazing teams.
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