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The Importance Of Resilience In Schools

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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

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