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Teacher pathways to resilience: interpretations of teacher adjustment to HIV/AIDS-related challenges
(Springer, 2013)
Resilience (or the capacity to adjust well to significant risk) is conceptualized as a dynamic, reciprocal transaction that occurs between people and their social ecologies. An outcome of resilience relies on a person, who ...
Toward an African definition of resilience: a rural South African cummunity’s view of resilient Basotho youth
(Sage Publications, 2013)
Resilience, or adaptive behavior in the face of adversity, has recently come to be understood as a phenomenon that should not be uniformly conceptualized across contexts and cultures. This emerging understanding has urged ...
Resilience in the face of fragile X syndrome
(Sage publication, 2012)
In this article, we communicate transformative findings from a case study on the resilience of a young woman with fragile X syndrome (FXS), a genetic condition involving mental impairment and physical, emotional, and ...
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 ...
Rethinking Rorschach interpretation: an exploration of resilient black South African adolescents' personal constructions
(Sage, 2011)
We explore Exner's Rorschach Comprehensive System as a schema-processing task to understand how six Black1 South African adolescents' personal constructions informed their transactional resilience. Transactional resilience ...
Black students' recollections of pathways to resilience: lessons for school psychologists
(Sage, 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 ...
Community-researcher liaisons: the Pathways to Resilience Project advisory panel
(Education Association of South Africa (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 (ASSAf), 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 ...
Does visual participatory research have resilience-promoting value? Teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings
(Education Association of South Africa (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 ...
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 ...