Browsing Faculty of Education by Subject "Resilience"
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A review of quantitative studies of South African youth resilience: Some gaps
(ASSAf, 2015)Resilience (positive adjustment to hardship) relies on a socioecologically facilitated process in which individuals navigate towards, and negotiate for, health–promoting resources, and their social ecology, in return, ... -
Adolescents' precocious and developmentally appropriate contributions to their families' well-being and resilience in five countries
(Wiley, 2011)An exploratory qualitative study of 16 disadvantaged youth in 5 countries suggests that making both precocious and developmentally appropriate contributions to their families' well-being is advantageous to adolescents ... -
AIDS in South Africa: Therapeutic interventions to strengthen resilience among orphans and vulnerable children
(Sage, 2014)Worldwide, approximately 10% of the 34.2 million individuals infected by human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) are under the age of 18. Additionally, 17.8 million children have experienced ... -
Community-researcher liaisons: the pathways to resilience project advisory panel
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2013)The Pathways to Resilience Project is an ongoing, community-based participatory research (CBPR) project. Its express focus is the exploration of how at-risk youths use formal services and/or informal, naturally occurring ... -
A critical review of studies of South African youth resilience, 1990–2008
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010)Given the growing emphasis in research and service provision on strengths rather than deficits, the focus on youth support in the South African Children’s Act of 2005 and the lack of educational, therapeutic and other ... -
A "Day in the Lives" of Four Resilient Youths: Cultural Roots of Resilience
(SAGE Publications, 2011)Grounded in the examples of four impoverished, relocated youths (two Sesotho-speaking orphans in South Africa and two Mexican immigrants in Canada), we explore cultural factors as potential roots of resilience. We triangulate ... -
Does visual participatory research have resilience–promoting value? Teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2012)I report on a phenomenological investigation into teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings during their participation in the Resilient Educators (REds) intervention. All 18 teacher participants came from ... -
Education services and resilience processes: Resilient Black South African students' experiences
(Elsevier, 2014)The resilience literature is increasingly drawing attention to formal service provision as a means for social ecologies to support children's and youths' positive adjustment to challenging life circumstances. This article ... -
Educational psychology and resilience in developing contexts: a rejoinder to Toland and Carrigan (2011)
(Sage publication, 2013)If educational psychologists wish to make a meaningful difference as practitioners, both to the children they work with and the ecologies these children come from, then, knowledge and application of resilience theory is ... -
Enabling white, Afrikaans–speaking adolescents toward post–divorce resilience: implications for educators
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2010)Using rich qualitative data, we describe the ecosystemically-embedded protective antecedents that enabled 10 white, Afrikaans-speaking adolescents from divorced families towards resilience. The description both confirms ...