PYGMALION

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PYGMALION & THE “PYGMALION EFFECT” “The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”

“You have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.”

** The role of expectations on learning is one of the more interesting areas of educational research. In short, students become what they are expected to become. This is known as the “Pygmalion Effect” because the character of Eliza Doolittle is able to transform herself because of the positive expectations set for her. As a result, teachers are encouraged to be “positive” towards students to elicit better performance or achievement. This is known as a “self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Drawing upon your reading of the G.B. Shaw play, //Pygmalion//, your own experience as a student or teacher and the attached articles, comment on the role of expectations in learning.

Are positive expectations good pedagogy? Are there group expectations that are damaging (i.e., gender, class, ethnic expectations) to students? Are all students capable of being successful? Are there possible dangers to how teachers praise students?

Carol Dweck: "The Perils and Promises of Praise" James Rhem: "Pygmalion in the Classroom"

Dan Pink: Drive: The surprising truth of what motivates us.

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided: Smile or Die. <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">media type="youtube" key="u5um8QWWRvo" height="377" width="672"

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<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Quotations from Pygmalion <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt;">[]