Resiliency
This
page is dedicted to research about resiliency and how to effectively encourage
students to be more resilient. According to the Resiliency in Action
Webpage, " Resiliency...is the ability to spring back from and successfully
adapt to adversity. An increasing body of research from the fields of psychology,
psychiatry, sociology, social work, and education is showing that the majority
of children, youth, and adults can bounce back and experience life success
and that resiliency is an innate self-righting and transcending ability
within people, organizations, and communities." Below is some research
that we have compiled that will help you bring out the resiliency in children.
This website is the homepage of the Resiliency in Action network.
This corporation proclaims its mission to be "the fostering of resiliency
by disseminating resiliency-related information, facilitating the practical
application and evaluation of the resiliency paradigm, and sustaining a
national and international grass roots resiliency network." This
website is organized into sections that deal with many issues related to
resiliency information, including: a network forum for questions, resources
about resiliency, up to date information, and networking with other resiliency
builders. The website also proides a training section that gives
dates for presentations and speeches by the top researchers and practitioners
in the field. A listing of helpful books and other resources for
easy ordering is available, as well as informative articles from these
books and various other contributions to the website.
http://www.resiliency.com/
This address links to an article that is found on Indiana University's
Department of Education homepage. They try to decipher why some students
who are considered "high risk" are so successful. This article gives
teachers some basic and concrete ways to identify and help "high risk"
students be more resilient.
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v2i2/resiliency.html
This
website provides many different options pertaining to resiliency, including
a quiz you can take and an interpretation that tells you how resilient
you are. The articles on resiliency are a tremendous resource for
learning more about resiliency. Additionally, there are links to
many stories and centers for resiliency on this website.
http://www.resiliencycenter.com/
This
is an article found in association with the Oklahoma University Education
Department web page. It is devoted to the understanding of resliency--more
specifically, how children succeed despite growing up in disturbing circumstances
with drug abusing or absent parents. The authors explore not only
resiliency, but also how it can be understood and properly identified so
that it can be used more effectively as a "building block for positive
youth development." with such knowledge of its characteristics and
traits, the authors hope to promote the teaching and modeling of resilient
traits in children. This article also offers 5 traits that are most
commonly found in resilient children, including: morality, creativity,
initiative, independence, and insight.
http://region7.ou.edu/papers/resiliency.html
This
page contains an article entitled “Practicing Resilience in the Elementary
Classroom” and gives specific suggestions for ways that teachers can foster
resiliency in the classroom. It suggests many different ways that
teachers can empower students and can help them develop the skills needed
in order to be resilient.
http://www.teachingstrategies.com/educators/ED_news/ED_news_resilience_art.html
This website offer educators and parents information about how to increase
resiliency in a high-risk world. It contains much information about
how resiliency or non-resiliency is linked to drug or alcohol abuse.
It offers six risk- reducing strategies in order to strengthen children’s
protective factors. There is also information about workshops for
parents and educators.
http://www.projectresilience.com/
This website includes the article entitled "Fostering Education Resilience
in Inner-City Schools." It contains studies about how to increase
resiliency in inner city schools. It gives characteristics of schools
that are preventative and use techniques to increase resiliency.
In addition, it gives tips to schools about dealing with student diversity.
http://www.temple.edu/LSS/L97-4.htm
This website contains the article called, "Cultivating Resilience:
An Overview for Rural Educators and Parents." This website talks
about how rural schools have to deal with resilience in a different way
from city schools. The article described how educatiors must first
look at the difference between at risk and resilient behaviors. In
addition this article gave clues on how to increase resilience in rural
areas, by using support from the community.
http://aelliot.ael.org/~eric/digests/edorc945.html
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Information compiled by Laura Price,
Denise Stamey, Jane Forbes Watson, and Wes Whitaker
Last updated 12/24/01