The author addressed researches conducted at schools of the different countries to prove how the resilience is significant in education system. Management by the principals and their role in improvement of the schools is brought to the attention of readers in these studies. Description of the “resilience” by authors in a verified manner by such practical method facilitates to give a clear impression to the reader about this term. Therefore, writing method of the chapter is more compatible with the "persuasive" style. The authors tried to explain with live examples to a reader that accuracy of thoughts are related to the principals’ having a big role in improvement of the schools through resilience. For this, they mentioned current condition of the schools by detailed explanation and these details were taken into an account when speaking about each country. The authors tried to convince readers as they think that they are able to support their opinion about “importance of resilience” which they think it is accurate by correct, substantial details and relevant examples. For this reason, research opinion used in writing of the chapter and sharing conclusion of this research with the readers is estimable. As well as, mentioning …show more content…
Although use of these words increase expressiveness, it may be considered generalization. For example, expression of “happy students” in the part of Sweden is not clear for the reader. The reason of why the author named the students happy is not mentioned and it may be question for the reader that for what reason the author named the students happy? What is its connection with education? As such questions remain unanswered, it is considered that, the authors chose these expressions as if they wanted to generalize any situation and the reader may not be satisfied with the information during this
Being resilient in tough situations can be substantial in some cases. To be resilient means one has great wit, especially in a 'finding a way out ' scenario. It can even be the key to survival, as can be shown in a short excerpt from Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. It gives a great example of resilience based off of a situation that Louie Zamperini finds himself and crew in as their plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean. What characteristic is most important in helping Louie survive?
Families learn to deal with a crisis by how their parents, and environment have taught them. Some of the things that will encourage a family to foster resilience is issues such as death, divorce, and abuse. For example, in the family belief systems. family resilience is fostered by shared beliefs that
Students and Seroquel In a piece titled "Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges", Peter Gray (Ph.D.) examines the growing trend of mental instability among university students. Collegiate faculty, and, in particular, college counselors, have reported higher rates of psychiatric disorders in campus resident 's year after year. Though Gray concedes that this problem is multifaceted, he places the majority of blame two parties: academia and parenting, proposing that their tendency to fold under the slightest of pressure compounded with an ever-present overbearing streak is rotting higher education from the inside-out.
Braden Beitel #2 Period 6-7 2/2/17 Resilience (Topic Sentence) Resilience is the only thing that can fix something wrong. (Background Info)
The determination to live comes from human nature. But the urge of giving up when we come across a difficult problem is also a part of human nature. There a few people in this world that have the characteristics of resilience. As author Kendra Cherry describes them, "People that are able to keep their cool have what psychologists call resilience, or an ability to cope with problems and setbacks" (Source A; Cherry, 1). An example of someone who has the characteristics of resilience is a bombardier name Louis (Louie) Zamperini.
What does resilience really mean to you? The literal definition to resilience is the ability to cope with problems and setbacks. In the story Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, she shows us all different kind of ways that the characters in her story used the skills that Kendra Cherry was talking about, to help them out of every situation. In this story it shows how certain situations affect people in different ways and how each person goes through seven skills. The characteristic that Louie undergoes is the skill of Strong Problem-Solving.
According to Melissa Balmain in “Bouncing Back,” two people who faced adversity with resilience are Howie Truong and Celeste Peterson. Although they have different stories they both went through their own trials. Howie Truong’s wife was killed after an accident when they had tried to flee Vietnam postwar; after Truong’s wife was found ashore he spent thirty-four years wondering what had happened to his son. Truong losing his wife and son made him feel guilty, the guilt made Truong drink away his problems every night by drinking himself to sleep. Truong realized that he had a role in his family and that he needed to stop drinking.
Hardy, Concato & Gill (2004) stated that resilient people are those who display “the capacity to remain well, recover, or even thrive in face of adversity”. Masten (2001) as mentioned that they are the ordinary person dealing with the challenges and tragedies of everyday real life. For instance, the response of many Americans to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and individuals’ efforts to rebuild their lives shows their resiliency. Being resilient does not mean that a person does not have or had experience difficulty or distress; the emotional pain and sadness are common but the path to resilience is likely to involve considerable emotional distress. Resilience is not a trait which people either has or do not have whereas it involves
1. I feel that forgiveness is not for the other person, it’s a process that provides you the energy and the self-confidence to move on. One reason why is forgiveness is not for the other is because in my experience, forgiveness is a situation where serious harm has been done to you physically or mentally. The next steps are finding a way to relieve your conscious of the harm caused.
Harmison et al. , (2011) argued that “...mental toughness can best be understood as a multidimensional, relatively stable, social–cognitive personality construct that is characterized by a constellation of specific cognitions and affects centered around key dispositional attributes (e.g., confidence, determination, emotional control)”. Resilience is described as to the ability of one to bounce back from negative emotional experiences and through flexible adaptation to the varying demands of stressful experiences (J. H. Block & Block, 1980; J. Block & Kremen, 1996; Lazarus, 1993). Coaches and other sports media use this term to describe favorable responses of athletes to incidents such as devastating injuries. An individual who is capable of
The obstacles that I have overcome molded me to be the person that I am today. Anna Harrington’s, “Where There is a Will, There is a Way” refers to how I have handled my employment circumstance over the last 14 years (Harrington,2012). Resilience has been wonderful but also a dreadful problem for me. I have learned to take resilience and set goals with it. Continuing to strive for better, even through tough times, have allowed me to face all fears with pride.
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity or hardship, Debra Oswald was able to express this through the lives of fictitious characters based on real Australian People. She uses themes concerning people marginalised in society, the struggle to achieve one’s dream and the past affect the present, by using these ideas with the diverse cast of characters as well as the range of literary and dramatic techniques, Oswald was able to show how people face adversity and how important it is to have resilience through the engagement of the characters and there development throughout the play. Gary is an average Australian working class man who has been marginalised in society, he lives near the poverty line and struggles everyday to control
It is an ordinary process for humans to cope up with “demonstrable risks” (Masten, 2001) i.e. threats that have noticeably brought unwanted issues in one’s life. Resilience can be defined on two foundations; risks and positive adaptation. It is a quality of a person to accommodate with unfavorable alterations in life derived as a result of exposure to risks such as financial crisis, divorce, health problems or disaster. Therefore, resilience cannot exist in absence of risks.
Resilience as a developmental attribute seems necessary for teachers to be more confident and successful in their teaching. More
According to Masten (2001) “resiliency refers to a class of phenomena characterized by good outcomes in spite of serious threats to adaptation or development” (p. 228). Garmezy (1991) considers the intelligence level of an individual and ability to possess the mind power to tackle an adverse situation as one pleases as the core characteristics of a resilient individual. Garmezy (1991) resiliency framework allows student affairs professionals is to examine the strengths of disadvantaged students who are faced with various life stressors, but