| A Focus on Hope: Fifty Resilient Students Speak Contributor(s): Morales, Erik E. (Author), Trotman, Frances K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761852727 ISBN-13: 9780761852728 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $36.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - General - Education | Aims & Objectives - Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving |
| Dewey: 155.418 |
| LCCN: 2010930634 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.35 lbs) 100 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |