Focus of hope : fifty resilient students speak / Erik E. Morales, Frances K. Trotman.

ISBN:

9780761852735

Title:

Author:

Morales, Erik E.

Personal Author:

Morales, Erik E.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 pages)

Contents:

Chapter One; Introduction; Chapter Two. Meeting the Students and Capturing Their Stories; Chapter Three. The "Resilience Cycle": An Overview; Chapter Four. The Cycle in Context: Spoke 1 "Recognizing Reality"; Chapter Five. The Cycle in Context: Spoke 2 "Manifesting Help"; Chapter Six. The Cycle in Context: Spoke 3 "Synthesizing Resources"; Chapter Seven. The Cycle in Context: Spoke 4 "Evaluating and Enhancing"; Chapter Eight. The Cycle in Context: Spoke 5 "Developed Habits and Goals"; Chapter Nine. Facilitating Resilience: Practical Implications.

Appendix A. Resilient Student' Demographic InformationAppendix B. The Resilience Cycle; Appendix C. Resilient Students' Institutional Data; Appendix D. Resilient Students and Major Protective Factors; Appendix E. Major Psychological Stressors Associated with Academic Achievement; Appendix F. Individual Student Demographics (N50); References; Index.

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Subject Term:

Students -- United States -- Social conditions.

Resilience (Personality trait)

Academic achievement.

Academic achievement -- United States -- Case studies.

Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- Case studies.

EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.

Academic achievement. (OCoLC)fst00794949

Resilience (Personality trait) (OCoLC)fst01095573

Students -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01136121

Geographic Term:

United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155

Added Author:

Trotman, Frances K.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=351503

Publication Date:

2011

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

Erik E. Morales, PhD. is associate professor of education at New Jersey City University's Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe College of Education, in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. He has written and presented extensively on academic resilience and achievement. Frances K. Trotman, PhD. is professor of psychology in the Department of Psychological Counseling at Monmouth University, located in West Long Branch, New Jersey. She has over thirty years of teaching, research, and counseling experience. She has focused extensively on issues of educationally equity and African American mental health issues.