Educational Resiliency
Student, Teacher, and School Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2006
289 pages
978-1-60752-856-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first volume in the series Research in Educational Diversity and Excellence. The purpose of the present book is to summarize and discuss recent perspectives, research, and practices related to educational resilience.
There are three distinct parts of the book. The first part, "Conceptual Issues and Reviews of Research," focuses on issues related to defining resiliency as well as reviewing classical and recent studies in the area of educational resiliency. Part II, "Studies of Students' Resiliency," focuses on recent resiliency findings including methodological issues and implications of individual and school-level resilience. The final part, "Schools, Programs, and Communities that Enhance Resiliency," concentrates primarily on interventions and instructional programs that foster resiliency in youth and the schools they attend.
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Hersholt C. Waxman | Yolanda N. Padron | Jon P. Gray
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Part I ISSUES AND REVIEWS OF RESEARCH
- 1. Introduction and Overview
- 2. Resilience: Emerging Social Constructions in Educational Policy, Research, and Practice
- 3. Promoting Educational Resilience for Students At-Risk of Failure
- 4. Resilience Research and Practice: National Resilience Resource Center Bridging the Gap
- Part II STUDIES OF STUDENTS' RESILIENCY
- 5. A Longitudinal Look at the Literacy Development of Children Prenatally Exposed to Crack/Cocaine
- 6. Achieving Success: An Agentic Model of Resiliency
- 7. Mathematics Learning Environment Differences between Resilient, Average, and Nonresilient Elementary Students
- 8. The Student-Teacher Axis: Idiosyncratic Credit and Cutting the Slack
- 9. The Relations of Teacher Education Students' Resiliency, Work Motivation, and School-Level Resilience
- Part III SCHOOLS, PROGRAMS. AND COMMUNITIES THAT ENHANCE RESILIENCY
- 10. Presenting a Resilience Paradigm for Teachers
- 11. Developing Resilient Learning Communities to Close the Achievement Gap
- 12. Resilient Communities: The Interplay between Community Development and Child Development Through Effective School Refonn
- 13. Promoting Resiliency in Youth, Educators, and Communities
- 14. Future Directions for Educational Resiliency Research
- Contributing Authors
