Resilience education
Grades: K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
ENC#: ENC-024506
Publisher: Corwin Press
Date: 2001
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Subjects:
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At risk students. Educational improvement. Learning environment. |
Resource Type:
Professional development.
Abstract:
This book describes how resilience education theory can be applied in today's classroom to benefit all children, even those who struggle with adversity. Resilience education is defined as the development of decision-making and affective skills within each person and connectedness between people in the context of a healthy, democratic learning community. In resilience education the emphasis shifts from a focus on adversity in students' lives to a focus on the possibilities. The goal of resilience education is to develop each person's strengths and interests so that lifelong learning and thriving can occur.
Part I of this book examines the meaning of the term resilience education and the research supporting its use. Part II offers an approach to introducing resilience education into classrooms. Examples of how resiliency theory is applied in real schools are featured. The authors describe four application principles for resilience education: use strategies that engage students' intrinsic motivations; allow students to safely experiment with making decisions; help create life goals that the learner endorses; and encourage the exploration of emotions related to the adversity young people face. References are included. (Author/JRS)
Table of Contents:
Preface
Taking a resilience approach
What resilience education is
Resilience education and this book
Acknowledgments
About the authors
Part 1. Supporting evidence for resilience
1. The limitations of a risk orientation
Risk factors and the medical model
A nation at risk?
Results of the risk orientation: a deficit view of young people in school
Maintaining the risk orientation
The risk orientation does not meet scientific rigor or today's educational needs
2. Understanding the human capacity for healthy adaptation
The historical emergence of resilience
Thriving in the face of adversity: resilience and the whole child
Resilience: each person's self righting mechanisms
Resilience and protective factors: a lifelong holistic view of development
3. Applying a resilience approach to education
Decision making skills
Emotion: a learning necessity
Building on interests and strengths
A healthy learning community
Resilience education, described and defined
Part 2. The PORTable approach to resilience education
4. Educating through participation, observation, reflection, and transformation
Resilience education: the PORT model
Initiating a PORTable resilience education
The time factor
Order of elements
5. Participation: authentic, active engagement
Authenticity and now
Contact
Verbal and nonverbal participation
A climate of sustained contact
Withdrawl
Participation in resilience education
6. Observation: noting your experience
Multiple sensorial modalities of observation
A low risk, low inference exercise
Multiple levels of observation
Nonjudgmental observation
Appreciation of others' perspectives
Observation in resilience education
7. Reflection: interpreting your experience
An interpretive framework for observation: content reflection and meta reflection
The contributions of reflection to resilience education
See, imagine, feel
Our reflection on the content of this chapter
Meta reflection on this chapter
8. Transformation: being aware of and responsible for change
A parable
Transformation through two kinds of change
Why it is important to leave the changes up to you and your students
A learning vignette
A transformation exercise
9. Bringing it all together
Meta reflections on writing this book
Closing meta reflections
References
Index
Pricing Information:
 | Description: 1 text (paperback) | Cost: $27.95 | ISBN: 978-0-7619-7626-4 | Order#: D2200-0-7619-7626-4 | |
Publisher:
Corwin Press Contributor(s):
| Authors: Joel H Brown; Marianne D Emidio-Caston; Bonnie Benard. |
Specifications:
1 text (xvi, 105 pages ; 25 cm.)
Record Created: 05/15/2002 Last Modified: 04/18/2005
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