A Focus on Hope - Fifty Resilient Students Speak (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	December 2010
Authors:	Erik E Morales • Frances K. Trotman
Dimensions:	241 x 162 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	100
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-5271-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Students / student organizations Promotions
LSN:	0-7618-5271-9
Barcode:	9780761852711

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