Full Description
Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships between groups of protective factors are documented and explored. A Resilience Cycle theory, which was chronicled in previous works of the authors, is used as a framework to view essential elements of the students' academic success. Ultimately, the data and findings are used to propose practical suggestions for promoting academic resilience in at-risk youth nationwide. Furthermore, because one author specializes in education and the other in psychology, both of these disciplines are brought to bear on this crucial and understudied topic.
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Meeting the Students and Capturing their Stories
Chapter 3
Chapter 3: The Resilience Cycle: An Overview
Chapter 4
Chapter 4: The Cycle in Context: Spoke 1 Recognizing Reality
Chapter 5
Chapter 5: The Cycle in Context: Spoke 2 Manifesting Help
Chapter 6
Chapter 6: The Cycle in Context: Spoke 3 Synthesizing Resources
Chapter 7
Chapter 7: The Cycle in Context: Spoke 4 Evaluating and Enhancing
Chapter 8
Chapter 8: The Cycle in Context: Spoke 5 Developed Habits and Goals
Chapter 9
Chapter 9: Facilitating Resilience: Practical Implications
Chapter 10 References
Chapter 11 Index
Chapter 12 Appendix A: Resilient Students' Demographic Information
Chapter 13 Appendix B: The Resilience Cycle
Chapter 14 Appendix C: Resilient Students' Institutional Data
Chapter 15 Appendix D: Resilient Students and Major Protective Factors
Chapter 16 Appendix E: Major Psychological Stressors Associated with Academic Achievement
Chapter 17 Appendix F: Individual Student Demographics (N=50)
