Fostering Intellectual Humility in Adolescence

Session Type: Virtual Symposium

Abstract

Intellectual humility - acknowledging one’s intellectual limitations and valuing others’ intellect - leads to learning, but how to encourage development of intellectual humility in adolescence remains an open question. Here we present three interdisciplinary, mixed methods studies that examine how intellectual humility is expressed by youth and how teachers and schools might foster its development. The papers collectively span early to late adolescence and three learning contexts - science classrooms, mathematics classrooms, and school-wide communities. This work is among the first to identify ways intellectual humility manifests in actual classrooms and how to educate for it.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Adolescence and Youth Development

Chair

• Tenelle Porter, Ball State University

Papers

• Identifying Intellectual Humility During Engagement in Argument From Evidence in High School Life Science - Anna MacPherson, American Museum of Natural History

• Mindset Messaging: Teacher Intellectual Humility in Responses to Student Bids in the Mathematics Classroom - Kathy Liu Sun, Santa Clara University; Jennifer L. Ruef, University of Oregon

• Emphasis on Brilliance Discourages Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter, Ball State University; Andrei Cimpian