Carmel Cefai

Promoting Resilience in the Classroom (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Developing Pupils' Emotional and Cognitive Skills

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Resilience is a set of qualities that enable children to adapt and transform, to overcome risk and adversity, and to develop social competence, problem-solving skills, autonomy and a sense of purpose. For children and young people it is as vital to possess these qualities in school environments as in the family and the community at large.

This handbook for teachers and educators explores ways of nurturing resilience in vulnerable students. It proposes a new, positive way of thinking about schools as institutions that can foster cognitive and socio-emotional competence in all students.

Individual chapters examine effective practices in schools and classrooms, and assess a range of classroom processes, such as engagement, inclusion, collaboration and prosocial behaviour. The author makes use of case studies throughout to bring to life classroom activities and concrete strategies that will promote best practice for enhancing student resilience, and offers a framework that can be adapted to the existing nature, culture and needs of each individual school community and its members.

Promoting Resilience in the Classroom is a valuable resource for educational practitioners as well as educational officers and policy makers engaged in school development and educational improvement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846427732
• Artikelnr.: 38357817

Autorenporträt

Carmel Cefai, PhD, chartered educational psychologist, is a lecturer in educational and health psychology in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Malta. He is course director of the M.Ed. in Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties at the University of Malta, and is co-director of a national research project on social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in school.

Professor Paul Cooper is a chartered psychologist and professor of education and is Director if the School of Education and the Centre for Innovation in Raising Educational Achievement at the University of Leicester. UK. He is series editor of the `Innovative Learning for All' series and co-author with Yonca Tiknaz of Nurture Groups in School and At Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, which is also in the series.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Foreword by Paul Cooper, Series Editor. Chapter 1.
Educational Resilience for All. Part 1: A Model for Classroom
Practitioners. Chapter 2. Introducing Risk and Resilience in Education.
Chapter 3. A model of Resilience-enhancing Classrooms. Part 2: Classroom
Practices. Chapter 4. Caring Classrooms: Building Connections with Pupils.
Chapter 5. Prosocial Classrooms: Caring and Supportive Peer Relationships.
Chapter 6. Engaging Classrooms: Authentic, Inclusive Engagement. Chapter 7.
Collaborative Classrooms: Learning and Working Together. Chapter 8.
Empowering Classrooms: Choice, Voice and Belief. Part 3: A Plan of Action
for the Classroom Practitioner. Chapter 9. A Plan of Action for Educational
Resilience in the Classroom. Appendix: A Naturalistic Study of Classrooms.
References. Subject Index. Author Index.