In this book, Mu crafts a sociology of resilience through his
multi-year research with Australian students. The content is not
merely concerned with individual achievements in precarious conditions
but also ponders over transformative, reflexive, and power-rejective
everyday practices that make social change possible, probable, and
even inevitable. Since Emmy Werner and her colleagues discovered the
"self-righting" and "invincible" children on the Hawaiian island of
Kauai who fared well despite exposure to significant household risks,
positive psychology has markedly advanced the knowledge about child
and youth resilience to adversities. Yet, many children and
adolescents continue to slide through system cracks. This fact does
not invalidate psychology of resilience; rather, it urges new
frameworks to break the reproductive circle of inequality. Reframing
the traditional psychological notion of resilience through recourse to
Bourdieu’s relational and reflexive sociology, the book moves beyond
individual adaptation to adverse conditions and takes a deep dive into
sociological resilience to structural problems. It offers school
professionals and educational researchers an epistemological tool to
reapproach resilience and reappropriate Bourdieu for social change.
Offering scholarship that will interest researchers in the areas of
child and youth resilience, sociology of resilience, and sociology of
education, the volume is written to engage with the intellectual work
of both established scholars and emerging researchers within Australia
and beyond. The empirical analyses also provide useful insights for
educational professionals in schools and resilience researchers in
universities.
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An Australian Perspective
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000626698
Publisert
2022
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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