Resilience in Education: Concepts, Contexts and Connections [Hardcover]

This volume focuses on resilience in educational contexts which has emerged as an important field of research, with recent investigation into resilience of school students teachers, and post-secondary students and staff. The book integrates theoretically diverse viewpoints and research advancing relevant theory. It furthermore presents interventions which aim enhancing resilience in the educational context. The interplay between more basic research and actual practice in the classroom, university or workplace enriches relevant theory and research. Each chapter includes an explanation of how resilience is conceptualized in the research and the methods used to examine resilience. The chapters also provide a description of the context in which the research was conducted and how particular aspects of context influence the resilience process. Innovative approaches to exploring resilience are highlighted as well as directions for future research.

Section I: Introduction.- Chapter 1 Resilience in Education: An Introduction, Susan Beltman & Caroline F. Mansfield.- Section II: Conceptualising Resilience.- Chapter 2 (Re)conceptualizing Teacher Resilience: A Social Ecological Approach to Understanding Teachers Professional Worlds, Qing Gu.- Chapter 3 How Does Apprentice Resilience Work? The Conceptualisation of a Generic Process Model of Resilience and its Application to Vocational Settings, Jennifer Schwarze & Marold Wosnitza.- Chapter 4 Great Southern Lands: Making Space for Teacher Resilience in South Africa and Australia, Caroline F. Mansfield, Liesel Ebers?hn, Susan Beltman, & Tilda Loots.- Chapter 5 A Multidimensional view on Pre-service Teacher Resilience in Germany, Ireland, Malta and Portugal, Francisco Peixoto, Marold Wosnitza, Joana Pipa, Mark Morgan, & Carmel Cefai.- Section III: Researching Resilience in Educational Contexts.- Chapter 6 The Interplay Between the Motivation to Teach and Resilience of Student Teachers and Trainee Tls&