Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2013
Published In
Oxford Handbook Of Happiness
Abstract
As a primary learning and social environment for most children, schools have tremendous potential to, and responsibility for, promoting resilience and well-being in children. This chapter reviews the rationale for focusing on resilience in education and illustrates some of the ways that schools can promote resilience in young people. Although resilience education can also encompass academic or educational resilience, the authors focus primarily on the power of schools to promote students’ social and emotional well-being and provide examples from their team’s work on school-based resilience and positive psychology interventions. As they hope to show, resilience education holds great promise in promoting the well-being of all students.
Keywords
resilience, positive youth development, prevention, well-being, positive education, positive psychology, children, adolescents, youth, schools, education
Published By
Oxford University Press
Editor(s)
S. A. David, I. Boniwell, And A. C. Ayers
Recommended Citation
Jane Gillham, R. M. Abenavoli, S. M. Brunwasser, M. Linkins, K. J. Reivich, and M. E. P. Seligman.
(2013).
"Resilience Education".
Oxford Handbook Of Happiness.
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199557257.013.0046
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/537
Comments
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