Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 118
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-4758-5656-9 • Hardback • May 2022 • $63.00 • (£48.00)
978-1-4758-5657-6 • Paperback • May 2022 • $27.00 • (£19.99)
978-1-4758-5658-3 • eBook • April 2022 • $25.50 • (£19.99)
Ronald A. Beghetto, PhD is an internationally recognized expert on creative thought and action in educational settings. He holds the Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and serves as a Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.
Laura McBain is a designer, educator and the co-director of the K12 lab at the Stanford d.school. As a human-centered designer, her work focuses on understanding the ecosystem of education and finding meaningful opportunities to advance racial and social justice.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Expectation
Chapter Two: Frozen
Chapter Three: Curiosity
Chapter Four: Disappointment
Chapter Five: Perspective
Chapter Six: Guilt
Chapter Seven: Surprise
Chapter Eight: Embarrassment
Chapter Nine: Honesty
Chapter Ten: Humility
Epilogue
References
About the Authors
We all experience failures but we don't all learn from them. In an innovative format, Beghetto and McBann explain in a conversational style how we can better experience and learn from failures! A fantastic book!
— Yong Zhao Ph.D., University of Kansas
My Favorite Failure is filled with stories that made me laugh, cry, squirm, and realize I am not alone. The authors spare us from those tired old arguments about celebrating and screw-ups and setbacks. They rightly treat failure as inevitable and often painful for all of us, and provide mindsets, mantras, and tools to help us respond better both in the moment and the long-term. As I read the lovely and wise conversations between the authors that run through the book, they taught me how to keep moving forward, keep learning, how to laugh at myself and love myself (despite and because of my flaws), and how to teach others to do the same.
— Robert Sutton, organizational psychologist, Stanford professor, and New York Times bestselling author