Browsing by Subject "Africentric"
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Black students' recollections of pathways to resilience: lessons for school psychologists
(Sage publication, 2013)Drawing on narrative data from a multiple case study, I recount the life stories of two resilient Black South African university students to theorize about the processes that encouraged these students, familiar with penury ... -
Meaning-making and resilience: case studies of a multifaceted process
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Explanations of meaning-making generally prioritise intrapersonal processes. Although making meaning is an intrapersonal process, it is also strongly influenced by person-context interactions and cultural positioning. ... -
Positive adjustment to poverty: how family communities encourage resilience in traditional African contexts
(SAGE Publications, 2013)In the main, resilience literature explains positive adjustment to adversity in ways that are biased towards western culture. Although studies of resilience among African Americans have reported the importance of kinship, ...