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Supporting Children's Resilience: Early Childhood Educator Understandings

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posted on 2016-09-01, 00:00 authored by Kerryn ArchdallKerryn Archdall, Anna KilderryAnna Kilderry
THIS PAPER HAS TWO AIMS. First, it examines how children's resilience is being defined and discussed in literature, and second, it presents findings from a small-scale study that investigated early childhood educator understandings of children's resilience across the curriculum. Considering resilience as a multifaceted construct, the authors question why children's resilience should be a focus for educator practice and how research literature is portraying the role of educators in supporting children to become resilient. The findings illustrate that educators in the study had varied understandings of the notion of resilience and how to support children's resilience. Spontaneous and unplanned teaching strategies were revealed as the educators' main approach of supporting children's resilience. There was also some uncertainty about how to identify resilience according to educators in the study. The study's findings raise critical implications and questions for the early childhood sector, one of these being: Is the fostering and supporting of children's resilience too important an educational issue to be left to the fate of spontaneous incidents to arise in practice?

History

Journal

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

Volume

41

Issue

3

Pagination

58 - 65

Publisher

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD

ISSN

1836-9391

eISSN

1839-5961

Language

English

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, Early Childhood Australia

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